CS to Neville: “For example, you complain we isolate ourselves. Yet when I join this forum, how many times have I heard the sentiment, Stop pushing your Chabad agenda. You’re only talking to us to mekarev us etc.. Think about it.”
I don’t know what Neville actually meant, but what I understood him to mean was that you isolate yourselves by not being part of other groups’ initiatives. For example, Daf Yomi Bavli, Yerushalmi, Mishna Yomis, Halacha Yomis, Shaar Cheshbon Hanefesh Yomi have never been endorsed by Lubavich
Yet it is true that when it comes to frum people Lubavich is always pushing them to accept lubavich initiatives. If I had a dollar for every time I was told that I should be learning Chitas, Rambam or even mesechta Sotah during Sefirah, I would be so rich that I would be typing this from my own private yacht moored in my own private island in the Bahamas.
Why is it OK to think that everybody has to do what chabad does but chabad can ignore the call of other gedolei Yisrael?
In a similar vein, I may easily be wrong here, but I believe that Lubavich did not take part in the Citi Field rally about the dangers of the internet. I also believe that alone among all Chareidim, Lubavich does not insist on smartphone users having filters. (I personally know a number of Lubavichers who do, but I know more who don’t.)