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Perhaps the Post-Dispatch editors and columnist Tony Messenger need to lay aside the rose-colored glasses that only the right promotes hate and violence.

Yes, in an ideal world, racism and hatred would not exist. Unfortunately, this is the real world, and racism and hatred will always exist to some degree. The editors bash President Donald Trump for saying both sides are to blame for the violence in Charlottesville, Va. Peace-loving, tree-hugging liberals would never do that, right?

However, CBS This Morning did investigative fact-checking, and reported on Aug. 16 that counterprotesters did come prepared to fight. Whether the Post-Dispatch, myself, or most of America like it or not, the truth is the truth.

The Post-Dispatch and Messenger also seem to forget or overlook that liberals destroyed public and private property in protests after Trumps election, and that liberals have blocked free speech several times. Whatever happened to the liberal position of I disagree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it? (The Aug. 18 editorial Hate speech is abhorrent. Banning it is even more abhorrent does indicate the position is not quite dead.)

Of course, there is Kathy Griffins disgusting decapitation, and state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, D-University City, posting that the president should be assassinated. Promoting hatred and violence exists on both sides.

Stuart Clark Bridgeton

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