“The sad irony is that they preach acceptance and anti-isolationism when they are [very intentionally] sheltering the unlearned masses from learning any non-Chabad (mainstream) shittahs. And, if someone by chance learns one, they have to spin it around eg. “we daven with more kavanah than everyone else because we eat first and miss zman hatefilla”, “we’re careful to not sleep in the Sukkah”, etc. We can laugh it off, but, unfortunately, people in remote areas end up really believing these things.”
I am mamesh happy that the accusations against the behavior of Lubavitcher chassidim are true and are the same as accusations made by misnagdim harishonim against chassidim harishonim (play on words duh) which were true. It is an incontrovertible fact that chassidus came to correct mistaken things which had worked their way to in to common Jewish practice, belief, and behavior, and to cure those machalos. The Baal Shem Tov and his students, and their students did not come to forge a path that should also be acceptable for those who choose to follow it. They came to change the entire nature of the worldwide Jewish community and its observances.
The reason chassidim teach that Judaism IS chassidus and is because that is the shita of the Baal Shem Tov.
On a different point: Acceptance does not mean agreeing. A person can love another Jew and accept him for who he is, judgmentally, but not agree with him. This is a mistake some of you make. You say “Chabad says they love and accept everyone but then they say they are exclusively right.” Yes, the same way we tell an ignoramus who is doing the wrong thing that he is wrong, we tell a yeshiva bochur, a yungerman, a rosh yeshiva, etc etc that he is wrong.
And that is the same way every modern orthodox Jew thinks modern orthodoxy is what is right for the world, and the same way every bochur sitting in Brisk, and Mir, and BMG etc think that their Judaism is what is right for the world.
And none of them entertain a shidduch from the opposite group, and none of them “hold” of the opposite group etc etc etc and none of that is lacking from love and acceptance.
When a person is sincerely convinced that he has the truth there is no wonder that he wants to share it with his brother.