Affirmative action (like google’s moral imperatives here) are fairly unpopular, so many view their actions as a kind of encroaching cultural imperialism. When Google talks about “safety” it means enforcing a very specific set of beliefs that frankly a large majority of people disagree with.*

It isn’t impermissible for Google to do this, but nobody has to like it, or agree with it.

*for instance, affirmative action is disapproved of by 70-80% of Americans and couldn’t win on a ballot in California in 2020 which is pretty exceptional.