As a Litvack Jewish person who goes to a Hasidic Minyan some of "us" are those people. ;-)
Weird phrase to get agitated about but I never said anyone wasn't...
"ourselves" as in from the perspective of the person writing that comment, people who are different than them. No need to get defensive.
I do believe you have misread this. "Ourselves" is used because "me" would not be correct, but really the meaning is "me the author" in that sentence. I would suggest a more generous re-reading.