People honestly don't understand the problem with Itachi's image, his overwhelming popularity. He acted based on the common good, made the ultimate sacrifice to save a loved one, suffered his entire life, orchestrated his own execution, took responsibility for his sins, unlike many, and died beautifully, on a high note—what's your fucking problem, antis?!
Okay, let's try to figure out what our fucking problem is.
I've already touched on one point: the contradiction between Itachi's attitude toward his own and others. Own raked out of Itachi everything bad the young man had hidden deep within his soul. Others knew Itachi as a gentle and noble individual, avoiding permanent harm to others and never slandering anyone. Asuma and Kurenai were barely injured by their encounter, Kakashi dusted himself off after Tsukuyomi and moved on, Hiruzen and Danzo, his clan's murderers and kekkei genkai thieves, weren't met with a single ill word. As the saying goes, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. The Uchiha clan had the misfortune of becoming Itachi enemies.
An unmovable object. He became firmly established in his views at an extremely early age, finding fault with his own family for his greatest fear—war. He exterminated the culprits. Despite living for a considerable time among anarchists, witnessing with his own eyes the victims of Konoha's war machine, he never changed his convictions one iota. He never moved an inch toward understanding that as long as people remain numerous and diverse, as long as they fear and envy, and crave solutions to their problems at others' expense, wars will never end. We credit Itachi with his rigidity and narrow-mindedness.
Unmet consequences. Let's imagine the clan wasn't completely exterminated. Let's imagine that Hiruzen does have some semblance of a conscience, and, horrified by what he's done, he stops Danzo and those two old reptiloids whose names I never can remember from slaughtering the survivors. And so they dwell in the deserted Uchiha compound, silent and shocked, wondering for the thousandth time what possessed Madara to make a pact with the Senju in the first place, and what the hell they should do next. And then Itachi appears among them. In what capacity? Perhaps he's the chief overseer of the despised rebels who were graciously spared their lives. Or perhaps, on the contrary, he was expelled from the ANBU for his insufficient efficiency in carrying out orders. And now he's forced to make eye contact every day with those who…
Ah, forget it. Never happened, and never will.
He chose the strong over the weak. This is not a sin, of course; it is very human trait. The psyche seeks an anchor, a safe haven. Confronting the family proved psychologically safer than even thinking about destroying the status quo, going against those in power. Itachi saw the solution for the weak in becoming even weaker, in abandoning their absurd ambitions.
Narrative elevation. The victims are villanized, the man who fought for justice and retribution is ridiculed and criminalized, the murderers are elevated and ennobled. Note that not a single person killed during the Uchiha massacre was resurrected through the Edo Tensei to speak out, but Itachi, Hiruzen, Danzo, Hashirama and Tobirama are given the opportunity to speak freely and rationalize their actions.
Fandom will not lie: in the public mind, Itachi is surely shielded from accusations of genocide by the menacing shadow of the notorious civil war that loomed over peacefully sleeping Konoha, but then dissipated by morning with the last breath of the last Uchiha. Itachi is the tip of the poisoned arrow that pierces Naruto's humanistic message. Or, I don't know: can the message "when you grow up you'll understand" be considered humanistic?
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