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It says in the article: > A key subject of the book Spam Kings by Brian McWilliams, Hawke was a Jewish-born American who’d legally changed his name from Andrew
by core-questions 6y ago
It says in the article:
> A key subject of the book Spam Kings by Brian McWilliams, Hawke was a Jewish-born American who’d legally changed his name from Andrew Britt Greenbaum.
so yeah, that's got to be a very messed up psyche, to take on the identity of your enemy.
- fastball 6y agoSounds like he was maybe just being an opportunistic capitalist. > Under the pseudonym of "Bo Decker," he began selling Nazi merchandise and offering membership to his internet neo-Nazi group "Knights of Freedom" and later the American Nationalist Party.
- ficklepickle 6y agoHe was a troll. I also don't imagine he actually held these beliefs, but it doesn't really matter. People that feel rejected by society lash out at society. The overt spam and Nazism is pretty clearly lashing out. I guess he lashed out at the wrong folks, because murders are very rare in Squamish. It looks like he was hiding from someone and they found him. Personally, I would have hidden further from a metro area. Vancouver is very close.
- Fellshard 6y agoI think we see sufficient evidence in our current time that self-loathing is a very useful fuel for self-righteous piety and zeal. If you can be persuaded your very identity is evil, you will do horrifying things to fight it.