“For one it shows people that don’t know that much about chabad how it really is”
Exactly. As frustrating as it is, it’s good to have her Freudian slips recorded on the internet. The cynic in me would say that once someone is already on the path to being a “friend of Chabad,” they would just write her comments off as a coincidence, or “just one fanatic,” or some such thing as they always do. But, I still have hope it’ll affect someone.
For us who are more in the know (and therefore by extension are NOT friends of Chabad), I think it does give a degree of comfort to find other people who have had the same problems with them as us.
RSo, I’m not sure I agree with all of your last post. Satmars are going to hold their Rebbe to be a tzaddik, Lubavitchers will hold their’s to be a tzaddik; I don’t really think we need to require them to bring proofs from other sources. Also, judging a rabbi by the actions taken by his followers after his death is a dangerous road to go down. The easy Chabad defense would be that the Rebbe saw that the need for kiruv was so great the the risks of damaging Chabad’s integrity were worth it. Regardless of what you might hold, publicly belittling the Chabad rebbe here could potentially help CS’ cause more than anything she’s ever said.