Reijo Hongisto, a Finnish MP, wrote about hate talk and inequality in his blog. His conclusion was that banning hate talk does not help and that inequality leads to hate talk. Now I’m realizing more and more what kind of people are representing us in the parliament. While I agree on Reijo’s thought that banning hate talk does not do much good, I can’t share his view on inequality, especially economical inequality, being the root cause of hate talk. That is just way too simplified view of the world. I believe the root cause of hate talk has more to do with envy than anything else. I dislike when inequality is used as a synonym for poverty and the vagueness of the term. At the same time it also smells socialism. I believe that Reijo confused those two terms either intentionally to gain more support or by accident. But like he said, shortening the lines of food aid support (by other means of helping people) is of course a good thing. It also annoys when our representatives write this kind populistic bitching and moaning. Reijo offered no insight nor ideas on how to improve the current situation, something which we’ve employed him to do.