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Apple Fires Executive After He Makes Crude Remark on TikTok

The executive, who worked in procurement, was reportedly key in striking deals with parts suppliers.


A longtime Apple executive involved with the company's procurement efforts has been fired following a crude comment he made to a popular TikTok interviewer earlier this month, according to a report by Bloomberg.

The TikTok star, Daniel Mac, recorded himself approaching the Apple executive, Tony Blevins, who was driving an expensive Mercedes-Benz. When Blevins was asked what does for a living, he didn't mention his work at Apple but responded that he plays golf and fondles women. The 25-second video, posted to Mac's 13 million followers, has been viewed more than 1.3 million times.

Apple didn't immediately respond to a request for comment, but the company told Bloomberg that Blevins was leaving the company. Blevins also reportedly apologized for his vulgar remarks.

The move marks a high-profile example where Apple's leadership has stepped in to prove its commitment to stamping out bad behavior and supporting diversity.

Blevins was clearly parodying an already outrageous fictional character, but that doesn’t matter. A scold mentality has infested corporate America, turning us into tattletale, PC robots more interested in unearthing microaggressions than doing an effective job.

Perhaps one can argue that Blevins’ great blunder was simply participating and being playful. And maybe that’s true. But we are given mixed messages from our cultural overlords about what is and isn’t kosher. On Apple TV+’s “Gutsy,” Hillary Clinton interviews rapper Megan Thee Stallion about her orifice opus “WAP” and gives her the deference she would a head of state.

We praise the libertines one day and yell at others to be prudes the next. The pearl-clutching is schizophrenic at best.

Humor used to be a uniting and essential force in our society — a salve soothing over our rough differences. As the great Joan Rivers once said, “If we didn’t laugh, where the hell would we all be?”

Sadly, we have the answer in 2022: We are infantilized adults living in a romper room simulation.

And as we increasingly capitulate to this mentality, we are also voluntarily dragging ourselves into the loser bracket.

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