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"Sometimes, I like posts that spread misinformation about Itachi because I want more people to acknowledge that he hurt Sasuke."
We've all read/seen the manga. Everybody with a brain already acknowledges that Itachi hurt Sasuke, and those who don't are beyond saving anyway.
No, what you are doing is trying to manipulate people into hating Itachi.
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An interesting pattern on the discourse about Itachi I frequently see is if you say anything positive about him, some people will show up, be pedantic, and prove how he's bad and doesn't deserve love and sympathy. Because they can only pick one or two instances from his arc, pretend nothing else exists, and go on with their hate. It tells more about them than the character they're hating. Media literacy shouldn't be a luxury they cannon afford. All it takes is using some of the braincells, but they're not willing to do that, are they?
"The fandom is not being harsh enough on Itachi even though Itachi himself didn't care about whether he was too harsh on his victims, either." (Paraphrased)
Seriously, what is it with these people? Do you think that, for Itachi, arranging his own execution was an afterthought? Do you think he went into the massacre without knowing exactly what he was doing and what would happen after? Do you actually, genuinely believe that the child who requested disgrace and death upon himself did not consider his actions "too harsh"?
What are we even talking about here? This is a perfect example, I find, because most of the time, the disconnect between Itachi fans and critics doesn't stem from a difference in ethics but an interpretive gap in which critics assign far more agency and willingness to Itachi's character than fans do. And then everybody is talking past each other and acting as though Itachi fans were deliberately looking past horrific acts, when the reality is that there is no point in "being harsh" on a person who already agrees with your every point.
"Itachi's war trauma was nothing special. Other characters went through the same and no one turned out like him, murdering his own family and traumatizing his brother for life." β seems to be a popular take among the antis, a very remarkable way to say they don't understand the nuances and are terrible at reading the text.
Canonically , no other other character sees war when they're as young as 4, but since wars/violence is very common in their world, it's safe to assume the characters witnessed it when they were too young to understand the significance of the events. However, in Itachi's case, it is repeatedly told to us that adults repeatedly exploited him for his nature and desire to not experience another war.
The other characters who are victims of war and are exploited to some extent are Obito and Pain, both of whom go on to causing much more trouble to everyone else, and have to be told "it is wrong to kill innocent people" to make them realise their pain is not more special than the others.
Itachi turns out That Way not only because of witnessing the war (that alone wouldn't have been the motivation for him to go that far) but because of the isolation that followed and lack of any solid support system, then grooming, and eventually his own family turning against him, until it was too late.
Denying his trauma doesn't change the fact that he was always an unwilling participant in every single violent act he carried. But you can't label him as a monster if you're also seeing things from his perspective.
The length that Itachi hating liars will go to erase Obito from the narrative completely is a thing to be studied. They wipe his sins away so cleanly it's as if Obito isn't a character. At all. He's not in the anime. We all imagined him because we are all deluded. Or it was the Mandela effect or w/e. Just a trick. The Itachi fans made him up right? Just to defend Itachi. We are the liars! OBITO DOESN'T EXIST IT'S A CONSPIRACY! I want to bash my head against a wall, and knock some sense into it! Because we obviously didn't watch the same anime did we?
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The silliest posts on this app are actually anti-Konoha posts, but the author hates Itachi so damn much, they shoehorn the "anti Itachi" tag into the post like the post itself had so much as mentioned his name.
One of the dumbest complains Itachi haters/critics have about him and his fans is that he does a lot of fucked up things and his fans aren't critical enough of him and "glaze" him for fucking Sasuke's life. And it's stupid? Because his fans acknowledge what he did, he himself acknowledges what he did. We understand the complexity, the reasoning behind those actions, and while not justified, they're understandable. His haters/critics don't think there's anything more to him than just that. And how dare fans see through that. Must be our fault and not their inability to sympathise with something they consider "wrong." Their morality is conditional, it's as simple as that.
Then, I get told "Itachi fans are doing this thing/are amongst the worst fandoms ever." and hello? I see far too many haters whining and complaining about his fans that I see fans even defending him, let alone justify those things he did. It's like those imaginary enemies they have created because they need a punching bag. That's all there is.
I don't watch JJK, but a bunch of people seem to be comparing Maki to Itachi. Some of them are instead denying those supposed(?) parallels, and while I obviously cannot comment on the parallels themselves, the counterarguments are simply incorrect.
"The difference is that Maki did it out of loyalty to her twin, and Itachi did it in loyalty to an authority figure!"
I'm sorry, but some people really need to re-read that manga.
