Yekke, my experience is that protesting has no effect, even with talmidei chachamim. Once a certain rabbi claimed that he heard negative info about the talmidim in a certain yeshiva form their barman. When I told him that that is LR he angrily told me that he knows the halacha. On other occasions (regarding learning during Chazarat HaShatz – see Mishna Berura 124:7) they made excuses (each was chozer b’teshuva that “proved” that they were right LOL). For that matter I know a talmid chacham who mimics the accents of gedolim. From various things he has said I gather that he has a poor self-image (he also enjoys making racist comments about various Jewish and nonJewish groups) so I try to ignore these actions.
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