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GH – Here’s the deal. I am equally frustrated and disgusted by the way a couple posters deliberately present halachos, hashkofos or minhagim in the most offensive and degrading way they can. They find a sick pleasure in rattling more modern thinkers even at the risk of misrepresenting yiddeshkeit and committing aveiros of their own in the pleasure they get in bugging others and rationalizing aveiros as mitzvos.
Having said that – that may be where we part ways. It is well and good to be disgusted over their bizui of Torah values, but you can’t take the extra step and conflate what you would like/what culture espouses/what sounds palatable with what Hashem wants from us. You have to go with halacha whether you like it or not, and if you don’t then understand it was your personal choice, and not that halacha was supposed to move over and make room for you.
But the best thing we all could do, which unfortunately isn’t doable, is to stop responding to their ill behavior. If he was begging for heroin it would be easier to walk away, if only we could stop feeding their empty spaces maybe their words would more easily fall on deaf ears. The danger is that for some crazy reason people will point to these distorters of emes as if they are the bottom line, and be turned off of the halacha and lifestyles we should be living. When actually their are better people to converse with on these matters.