> If people "on the left" won't allow him to speak, where exactly do you expect him to go?

Adding to this; we should bear in mind that while nobody specific speaks for "the left"'s moral judgments, at least some people literally won't allow him to speak.

Secondly, he was never trying to be a martyr and we shouldn't expect him to be one. He was posting a controversial opinion on a message board marked for controversial opinion. He was clearly putting in a solid attempt to be objective and to employ facts and evidence. He has some academic exposure to the fields he was talking about.

He didn't expect to be targeted the way he was; he likely wasn't trying to set himself up as a hero of free speech; and he doesn't have to do a walk of shame through hostile talk shows to justify his intentions if he doesn't feel like taking the (unjustified) heat.

> If people "on the left" won't allow him to speak, where exactly do you expect him to go?

Damore himself said he wanted to go on friendly media to do interviews, not that other media wouldn't have him.

"The far right is just a slip away from the reasonable right, therefore the reasonable right is dangerous?"

I'm pretty sure this is textbook slippery slope fallacy

This has nothing to do with being right or left. It is simply a human decency thing. A manager and company is responsible for everyone and after he shared such views with his name you could never keep him and have him working along side women. Google did exactly what they had to do. It is not complicated.