I don't know about you, but sometimes the gaslighting kind of gets to me & I think "maybe living in a police state is just kind of normal. Everyone around me is acting like it is."
The point of reminding people that it HAS BEEN like this for a long, long time is to get them to understand how NOT OKAY it is, not to get them to see it as normal.
We want everyone to grieve EVERY unnecessary death, not to stop grieving any of them.