Reply To: Kabbalas Loshon Horo

Yekke, my experience is that protesting has no effect

Firstly, let me direct you to post that may not have been approved before you wrote yours: the incident took place on Friday night; on Sunday morning this askan called up the Talmid Chochom to apologize

Secondly, I think you are fundamentally mistaken about the purpose of protesting. The aim here wasn’t that he should apologize, nor that he should refrain from further humiliation – although both of the above were certainly fringe benefits. The purpose was to be מוחה against a Bizayon HaTorah. When somebody is פוגם in כבוד התורה, somebody has to be מכבד תורה as a response.

I have responded to you on other threads about the purpose of protesting when people make public statements against Hashem and His Torah. The same response goes here. You can read it here.