Sort of guilty as charged, except that I prefaced it and was consistent throughout that the view from the outside is important here. Part of why I do not dig in to the underlying quotes is that I have seen from many items posted by @ExGingi that I am missing much of the background behind them and would not be able to properly understand them without spending way more time than I have available. Even with spending the time to truly understand one would need to actually live it. THat is a bit much to ask.
So you are repeating the error of 235 years ago, despite the hindsight that 1) that error lead to messira and שפיכות דמים כפשוטו, and 2) that despite what seems questionable to you on the surface, the conundrum is out there that the same people whose ideology you question, have proven to be otherwise מדקדק במצוות and furthermore מהדר במצוות?
You make claims about the "outside view" despite clearly having a distorted view, homogenizing ingredients while making one big melange out of it. And with that view anyone should feel justified to question Chassidus?
Well, for many years the Rebbe didn't allow public talk about the subject, as a misunderstanding of (or premature introduction to) the subject would alienate people, resulting in them not learning Chassidus. Sometime around תנש״א that changed, and the Rebbe allowed public discussion of the topic, and later encouraged it. I don't know why the change, but I could speculate.
As a side note, regardless of the reasoning for the change, I can assure you that there were chassidim who didn't like it. Just like there were Chassidim that didn't like it when the Rebbe instructed to go out to Times Square and put on tefillin with Jews, and there were those who were "embarrassed" when Gershon Ber Jacobson printed a picture of the Rebbe motioning to the crowd (or to someone specific) to whistle, in the Algemeiner Journal. Rest assured, none of this has anything to do with any internal fights (like the one
@jj1000 and
@Dan were alluding to. Those are just same old centuries long fights over power, prestige or anything of the sort. Nothing ideological about them.
All of that not withstanding, despite the Rebbe's quotes (which CBC, yourself, and others see as more controversial, to say the least) being out there in the open for many years (long before תנש״א), true gedolei Yisroel from a wide variety of backgrounds came to the Rebbe, respected the Rebbe, sought his advice, etc etc. So now, after so many years, people who don't purport to be gedolei Yisroel, should feel that they have a valid challenge on Lubavitch or the Rebbe (which are inseparable)? Are you smarter, or more knowledgeable than those gedolei Yisroel that actually communicated with the Rebbe?
Go back to the quote I posted from the Novomisker in the other thread!
