if that is what you walked away with then i want to publicly state that that is not at all what i was supporting. I agree with your above post and am pained by the shift that i too have seen.
i walked away with a very different message and that was about misusing the words and dictates of Chazal as a cover for elitism (actually any negative behavior) and racism that IS NOT dictated by them, spurring behaviors that our gedolim and Torah Giants never practiced or condoned.
We are given the instruction not to give gifts to non-Jews for various reasons. if everyone at the table is a yid except one co-worker and i bring gifts and distribute them to all the other workers at the same table and then turn to the other and say, “Sorry, i don’t give things to your kind” is Chazal permitting/encouraging/requesting that WHOLE scenerio? Or did I just chose on my own to carry out the ways of Chazal in that manner. And if someone objects to the way I chose to carry it out, are you saying that they are trying to put feelings over Torah morals?