The thought police are at it again—a Rutgers University student was fired from the school newspaper after using the phrase “illegal alien” in a column.
Aviv Khavich had published an article in Rutgers’s Daily Targum on Sunday night, arguing that immigration enforcement is not “anti-immigrant.”
When his editors tried to change every mention of the phrase “illegal aliens” to “undocumented immigrants,” Khavich refused.
“I considered it part of my opinion not to use” the term undocumented immigrants, which Khavich considers “politically correct and also inaccurate.”
Khavich, a conservative Donald Trump supporter, had a long history of writing controversial columns about conservative politics—which didn’t always mesh well with the newspaper’s staff.
After his column ran using the words “illegal aliens,” Khavich described his editor, Dan Corey, as “not happy.” Corey fired Khavich the next day.
“I can only arrive at the conclusion, as any reasonable person would, that my termination was a politically motivated move itself,” Khavich said.
However, Corey said that the problem was Khavich himself being difficult to work with—rather than Khavich’s conservative beliefs.
Khavich’s behavior “would not be tolerated in any organization,” he said, adding that the Daily Targum did not have a “political tone,” and that the edit was only for “stylistic purposes.”
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