[bleah1000]

The problem is that Google will be fine, but if a lawsuit takes an e-mail and uses it to say that this person is sexist/racist, or multiple people are sexist/racist, it could be bad for those people. Google will be able to provide context in a legal reply, but that doesn't mean that if the people are named with a quote, that they won't be mobbed. And this has happened with other lawsuits related to Google, where e-mail quotes in a legal document resulted in that person getting death threats.

I'm also not sure what you mean by employees are allowed to discuss working conditions. Are you assuming that the only e-mails/documents that she took are related to working conditions? There is no current evidence that is what she took. Or do you mean something else? Because the only public statement from Google alleges she took a large number of e-mails/documents from Google, not that she was fired for discussing working conditions. We'll have to wait for a lawsuit from her to find out further details though.