Damore's action was explicitly political. Its whole point was that Google was just too darned left, and foolish for being so.

One can't reasonably try to reach a large audience with something intentionally upsetting and then be surprised that those people are in fact upset. Freedom of speech cannot mean freedom from other people's speech.

I feel bad for anyone who disagrees with this. Their bias prevents them from seeing the world as it truly exists.

I feel bad for anyone who believes that their political opinions just happen to represent "the world as it truly exists".

Google is entirely full of vindictive people with blatantly political opinions - many who have acted with obvious malice towards others, so spare us the hypocrisy.

If this were truly a matter of 'opinion rocking the boat' - then there would be a bunch of other firings, policy changes etc. - but that is not the case at all.