Michael Malice

I think it's that what we refer to as the news.

is in the business of selling narratives, right?

And the narrative of the Holocaust is a very powerful one, which is if you let hatred of a subgroup in a population get out of control, this is the ultimate consequence.

And this is something that we all have to be scared of and do everything in our power to avoid in the future for any outgroup.

whereas what's the narrative of the holodomor sometimes governments kill their own citizens there's nothing you could do about it there's nothing we i mean they wouldn't have let us send food they wouldn't acknowledge like the newspapers even even russia weren't acknowledging it like what's this like this is some of the issues i had with regard to trying to advocate for the north korean people the reporters would be like well what can i do as an american it's a very natural question

And I'm like, I don't know.

All I know is how to speak to what is happening.

But in terms of next steps, I don't have a good answer for you.

So that is where the news kind of does break down.

If there isn't a story or a call to action, you're kind of almost like having a movie with a cliffhanger and there's no sequel.

It's like, what am I supposed to do here?

This is not scratching that itch, which for me, as a consumer of news, a layman,

He's like, okay, here's the story.

There was a bad guy and the cops shot him or they took him to jail.

And now the bad guy's caught, beginning, middle, end.

Here, it's just like Mao did this.

A lot of people were executed and starved.

Isn't that awful?

Well, and Mao's still in power.

Now Richard Nixon is raising a toast to him.