People say a lot of things when they're fed propaganda. It's arrogant to assume that you or I wouldn't say or think problematic things if we were fed propaganda our entire lives from our community, etc, and didn't interact with other people. In other words, being ignorant.

Things like racism are largely defeated through education. We don't know the full story here with this guy, but it's certainly possible for people to hold bigoted beliefs at one point in their life and then change views after becoming more knowledgeable.

A large portion of people act like once someone says something, their belief will never ever change and thus are irredeemable to society. I'm sure that's good for society in the long run. /s

Consider that he grew up in the Arab world on one side of a conflict.

What if he were Palestinian? Are all of them unwelcome at Google if they had an unmoderated thought in their lives?

Here's the link to the LinkedIn post in question: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-one-amr-awadallah/

What about it concerns you?

It’s a long read, so far I have skimmed through it and find his points honest and not hurtful.

Anything in specific you saw?

As someone who has said and thought a lot of cringeworthy stuff it is easy to read it and understand him.

Furthermore I guess, but this is just a guess, that most of those who aren't aware of a lot of really cringeworthy stuff in their past haven't really "seen themselves" yet.