It's extremely beneficial to avoid uproar and having your emotions manipulated. Knowing when someone may be taking advantage of an absence of information helps you focus on real issues and not manufactured ones
You are basically saying do not get upset about this because maybe it is manipulation. But if it turns out it isn't manipulation, you have successfully tamped down outrage over something that was actually deserving it?
It's cynical to support the firing of an executive that admits to the worst sort of extreme racism publicly as a misguided attempt to build his own brand? Lol
Sometimes I think the only reason platitudes like “bring your whole self to work” exist is just to weed out ppl who are dumb enough to fall for it. Never break the act if you wanna stay on top it seems.
It's about the best option I can think of to preserve one's brand if it is about to be made public that you are antisemitic.
Cynical? It seems like a measured and realistic approach to me. There's no upside in getting riled up when there's every reason to believe you are missing important context.
Assuming there's more to the story than what's at face value is really the part I was referring to.
The question is, what really is at face value? "Employees [...] said the frustration with Awadallah’s leadership style had been building for months", and the article doesn't contain any direct claim that Google parted ways with him because of the manifesto. You could draw inferences from the timeline, and the article does seem to be written to encourage you to, but those are exactly the kind of inferences that are unreliable when you don't have all the facts.