Peter Thiel publicly announced his support for Presidential Candidate Donald Trump recently and donated $1.25 million to his campaign. This drew the collective ire of a few Silicon Valley entities and certain left-leaning media. It’s also well known that Thiel has deep ties to some of the biggest tech giants today, including Facebook. Faced with the awkward prospect of addressing the issue, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to employees saying Thiel’s political stance is fine because his company aims for diversity.

News about the internal message started circulating when a screenshot of the memo was posted on the forum Hacker News. It was removed but not before Boing Boing picked up on it and shared Zuckerberg’s defense of Thiel to the world. The Facebook founder stressed that in order to maintain true diversity within the social network, differences of opinion and political views should not be silenced or suppressed.

"We can't create a culture that says it cares about diversity and then excludes almost half the country because they back a political candidate," the memo reads. "There are many reasons a person might support Trump that do not involve racism, sexism, xenophobia, or accepting sexual assault."

This line of reasoning echoes the same response given by Sam Altman, the top figure at startup incubator Y Combinator. Altman and his company recently came under fire for refusing to break away from Thiel after his announcement, saying that supporting a candidate is not a reason to terminate someone.

With all this drama surrounding one billionaire’s support of Trump, Tech Crunch asks why anyone cares so much in the first place. The publication argues that Thiel is not Trump and his donation to the candidate is not automatically tantamount to holding the same views as the Republican nominee. More than that, the $1.25 million that Thiel gave is practically peanuts compared to the man’s net worth, which can be taken as a hint as to how small his support really means.