"Privileging the emotional standpoint of settlers and colonizers... inverses the relational power dynamic such that the oppressor becomes the hapless victim, even as they drop weapons of mass destruction, destroy all semblance of civic life, and exact the lethal might of the Western military machine on unarmed men, women, and children. In this schema, there can, therefore, be no space for the claims, feelings, right to life, or humanity of the occupied and oppressed."