There is no usual pattern of these things. Damore had been shopping his thing around for a long time. I first saw it on the libertarians mailing list, where the members of that group told him in no vague terms to fuck right off with that noise. Then he crashed the "women in engineering" conference to whine about its existence. Finally they got rid of him.
https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/diversity/note-empl...
If he were literally harassing people I'm pretty sure that would have been mentioned.
What usually happens in these cases is people that object to the material wave it in everyone's face.