25. Movies like "Mississippi Burning" teach Americans that FBI agents were heroes during Civil Rights Era.
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26. Magazines like National Review supported Hoover during his whole career -- have they ever given serious second thoughts to that?
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27. Wrapping things up, we need to think of American racism as not just Southern but national & institutional with Hoover as major pillar.
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28. As a post-script, I'll add that mythos & jokes surrounding Hoover's sexuality helps hide his true odiousness.
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29. Stories about Hoover's cross-dressing rest on very skaky foundations and are almost certainly not true.
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30. Hoover was likely a deeply repressed gay man but that's far from the worst thing about him.
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31. Jokes about Hoover's cross-dressing serve allow people to shy away from confronting the true horror of his life and deeds.
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@nathanwhitlock Sure, he's a war criminal but a cuddly one with a cute accent.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@nathanwhitlock Well, we executed some, but recruited many more for the CIA and NASA.
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