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As an undercover FBI agent listened last October, Patrik Mathews made clear what he thought of black people and other non-caucasians. At one point, it’s alleged, he declared that he existed only for “the white revolution.”

That was among the many chillingly racist and violent remarks the former Canadian reserve soldier allegedly uttered while under secret police scrutiny in the United States, months after he was first accused of being part of a burgeoning neo-Nazi group.

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But to at least one of Mathews’ parents, the reports of hateful behaviour that vaulted him into the headlines are at odds with the “very sensitive” and compassionate son his family knows.

Mathews, 27, was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome as a child, faced bullying and was a “loner,” but “could never harm anyone,” said mother Kim Monk.

In fact, he actually dated an African-Canadian woman until a little over a year ago, she told the National Post.