Pashuta,
If Reb Chaim has reason to think that someone will listen to him, than he’s not telling someone their name is bad.
Truth,
Please realize, I’m not online all the time.
I have no opinion on this matter. It is not Noge’a to me personaly, since I have who to ask and I’m not holding by giving this name right now. The concept shocked me, just like you. At first, I couldn’t understand it at all. Once I saw the reasoning, it started making sense. I have no complaints to you for not liking it or not believing it or not wanting to believe it. My complaint is that you are accusing him of being a trickster. I was also, simultaneously, giving weight to that side of the argument. I did not and do not say that I subscribe to that train of thought, but I do not dismiss it as impossible that Reb Chaim Kenievsky could have said that.