And now there is a call remove Hoover’s name from FBI building.

[Live and Learn]

This day just keeps getting better and better.

New film about US persecution of gays spurs calls to remove Hoover’s name from FBI building

As momentum mounts for taking down the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House grounds, another checkered historical legacy is coming under fresh scrutiny: that of legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, whose name adorns the FBI Building in Washington.

Newly unearthed details about Hoover’s secret targeting of gay and lesbian Americans — featured in “Uniquely Nasty,” a Yahoo News documentary released this week — has revived calls to remove his name from FBI headquarters in Washington.

more: https://www.yahoo.com/politics/new-film-about-us-persecution-of-gays-spurs-calls-122438340656.html

[Cleita]

1. Sounds like a good idea to me and while they are at it, remove Reagan and

Bush, three of our most destructive Presidents in the last fifty years, from all public places and buildings.

[Live and Learn]

3. My boss has a picture of Reagan on his wall.

Doesn't that make it a hostile work environment? Makes me "throw up a little bit" everytime I see it.

[Cleita]

8. Don't know. Wouldn't his office be a private space, like putting

pictures of your family on your desk be that? Might make for an interesting debate where private ends and public begins.

[LanternWaste]

12. Your your boss's office a government building? No? Oh well, live and learn, I s'pose...

Your your boss's office a government building? No? Oh well, live and learn, I s'pose...

[Live and Learn]

13. Actually, it is. nt

[PoliticAverse]

2. I think it should stay up forever as a reminder... n/t

[Live and Learn]

7. It can go in the museum with the confederate memorabilia. nt

[Zorra]

4. Great idea. nt

[elleng]

5. Been hoping for that for a long time; worked across the street from that ugly edifice.

The 'poor' guy was, it appears, in the closet for his whole life. SO MUCH bad stuff he was responsible for.

[HassleCat]

6. Can't do that

We must honor the man who built the FBI into a huge, unaccountable organization that spies on Americans and persecutes them for holding the wrong religious or political beliefs. What? You want to deny him his legacy? We are watching you! And I think you know who I mean, when I say "we."

[Taitertots]

9. Keep "Hoover" but change everything else

Example:
"The Hoover secret police center"
"The Hoover center for corporate Hegemony"
"The Hoover center for the subversion of democracy"

[Live and Learn]

10. lol I could go for those ideas.

Might as well just be honest.

[olddots]

11. the name should be changed to Vacume Cleaner Center

the confusion could make people want to learn about how much of an evil twit J.E.H. was.