Another salient addition to the chapter Senju Tobirama and the Uchiha Ooga Booga Booga (this will be added to the chapter later on):
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I've talked endlessly about Curse of Hatred being a calculated racist dog-whistle and nothing more from Tobirama, quite endlessly, but I wanted to add just a tab bit more. A key element that people forget is Danzō, one of the four last surviving members of his squad. People don't realise as to how Danzō was basically itching to find any reason, no matter how little or remote, to kill off the clan and get away with murder (and gain all eyes in the process to up his game): if he knew or had even the tiniest reason to believe that he could argue against the Uchiha, using their "Curse" against them—as in that he believed that they had an "Evil Gene" of some sort—he'd have stayed silent on the matter? He'd have shouted it from the rooftops. Why did he stay silent on such a huge "scientific break-through" that, according to Tobirama, was a "biological inflection"?
In fact, if this were true, his every interaction with Sasuke would've gone markedly different: he'd have mocked the youth that his clan "deserved it!", something which a chunk of Western Fandom never stops telling us (regurgitating racist talking points that they've learnt by heart over the years, only in which they replace x, y, or, z race with the Uchiha and come out incessantly repugnant in the process, as many of us have heard these accusations in in our lives; so it's very easy for us to sniff them out); he'd had died with this mockery fresh on his lips. Why did he stay mum about something so big when he had no qualms about mocking Sasuke that his Clan was still "useful" through the eyes he was carrying on his arm? (Sigh, what a stupid fandom.) This "I told you so!" would've started from as early as Sasuke's defection to the point when he took over the Hokage seat. That'd have given him ample power and reason to connect the "Evil Gene" rhetoric, perpetuated by Tobirama, with Sasuke's "violent behaviour", thereby validating it all by declaring Sasuke's "uppitiness" as a self-fulfilling prophecy. He'd have outright lobbied about it in front of the Daimyō that the youth, Uchiha Sasuke, was a threat as he came from a genetic lineage that was . . . well, genetically evil. What stopped him from doing any of that?
Yet Danzō didn't even let slip a little whisper about it; the one person in the whole world, like Tobirama, who had the most reason to vilify the Uchiha, who, by the way, was one of the experts on the clan's genetic make-up outside the Clan; however, somehow, and for some inexplicable reasons, he had no reason to believe that they suffered from any "Curse of Hatred" or anything of the sort. Why? Oh, maybe, you know, Tobirama's "science" was just scientifically unproven racist bullshit that even people like Danzō couldn't back? Wow, what a though, huh, that he could actually just be racist?
I've already talked about Orochimaru in depth in the chapter, mentioned in the title, but I want to add another thing here: Orochimaru had no qualms about possessing the body of a youth who was genetically predisposed to . . . uh, "craziness"? Why would he occupy the body of someone (who he was getting for life, by the way, and not just three years; and I can make a post on this, as well, as it's easily provable) who would turn crazier and crazier with each tier of Sharingan that he gained? How does that benefit him? You Tobirama wankers do realise that this makes no sense, right?
What about Black Zetsu? Even as he outright mocked Sasuke whilst he absorbed his and Naruto's chakra about tinkering the writing on the Tablet he, just like Danzō and Orochimaru, just didn't think that he should tell Sasuke about his crazy fucking clan? What stopped him? He was only going to slowly kill literally everyone through the Shinju. Seriously, what stopped him from adding this very important detail that Tobirama swore by? You know, this creature that's thousands of years old and knew the entire Shinobi history, including Indra's? Yet he forget to mention this, somehow? Huh . . . how strange?
The fact of the manner is, the only thing that does make sense is that Tobirama, basically, created the Naruto-verse version of Colonial middlemen/model minority-system; and he accomplished that by making uchiha the exclusive police-force of Konoha, and this in turn not only excluded them physically, economically, and politically from the village but it also planted a clear anti-Uchiha sentiment in the general populace. And he did that by creating a justification called "Curse of Hatred". Funny, how, in his own words, Leaf's Will of Fire was enough to cure the "fault" in their genetics, which makes so much sense, amirite, guys? You hear that, guys, genetic problems can be healed through Tobirama's Christian . . . err, Will of Fire mongering or something. It's totes doable; you just gotta believe it!
This theory literally has no backing beyond Tobirama's racist conjecture as what he peddled as "facts don't care about your feelings!" about the Uchiha before Sasuke (and others) can apply to other clans, as well, especially the Uzumaki Clan who were literally, yes, very literally, known as Savages in the Naruto-verse. Yet which Clan met its genocide at the hands of the very vestiges of Tobirama's own squad—a genocide he, apparently, predicted with great accuracy—and which one was an unfortunate erasure at the hands of random incursions? It's no wonder I consider Tobirama apologists to be very sus!
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