I've been talking with Bryon about this, and after seeing a number of posts/blogs on the topic, I've been wondering if people may feel that Konoha and/or Tobirama Senju are getting demonized far more than they deserve. That's not to say they're saints that are without blame or anything, but it feels like people are putting the complete blame on one or both of them while, with the Uchiha Clan, seeming to just let them off without any responsibility.
For Tobirama, it's like people see his views towards the Uchiha as one step short of how Hitler was with the Jews and "undesirables". I've even seen some people go so far as to say Edo Tobirama was lying to Sasuke just to save face when they were talking even though, when I look at his character and attitude, he certainly doesn't come off as the type to lie about such things (and there wouldn't be a point in lying at that time anyway), but rather seems quite blunt and honest with his thoughts and feelings, and yet those same people try to justify Sasuke's revolution and the Uchiha Clan's actions and whatnot by copy/pasting stuff from Obito's story that he told to Sasuke (usually the part telling Sasuke about the Police Force solely being made to spy on the clan), seeming to unquestionably accept Obito's story as the gospel truth when he had far more reason to lie, and twist and omit facts in order to convincingly sway Sasuke towards his side. People even copy/pasting Madara trying to tell Hashirama what would happen if/when Tobirama would be the next Hokage, the destruction of the Uchiha Clan, as more "proof" that Tobirama was ultimately responsible for the Uchiha's own actions that lead to their destruction by Itachi's hand, while seeming to completely ignore the fact that Tobirama never tried to do any such thing while Hokage.
Could the police force have been used to spy on the Uchiha Clan? Possibly, but the only thing we have to back that claim is the word of "the coolest guy" Obito who, again, had every reason to lie, twist, and omit facts, against the word of Tobirama, who really had nothing to gain by lying about it at that point.
In the end, the question I would ask, that people can't seem to answer, is that if Tobirama really sought the destruction of the Uchiha Clan so badly as Madara and chunks of the fandom claim he did, then why didn't he just do it when he became Hokage after Hashirama died? Why not just snuff them out and create a cover story like what happened after Itachi chose to do it to protect the village decades later? Or whittle them down little by little in "accidents" while they were on missions or something? If anything, suspiciously, the Uchiha Clan continued to flourish during and after Tobirama's rule while. over time, it was the Senju Clan that seemed to mysteriously die out until there were but a few members left.
And Konoha - people seem to talk like they're the only village who did dark/dirty things under the system. IMO, it's really just easier to pin (more) blame on them because we got a lot more background and information on their actions compared to other villages (since that's where the MCs come from, and it doesn't help that most of the antagonists were either from there or were somehow affected directly by Konoha), but based on what little information we got on the other major villages, they all did just as bad, if not worse things than Konoha. As mentioned by others, we also can't forget that quite a bit of things regarding the system were purposely manipulated by the likes of Black Zetsu, Madara, Obito, Nagato, etc. and not just ones like Danzo, Orochimaru, and so on.
While the system does hold some blame, I feel it's also unfair to put all the blame on it, as if somehow nobody would've done the (bad) things they did if the system wasn't the way it was and/or hoping that it somehow negates responsibility for actions made by people. I see much talk as if the Uchiha Clan were completely innocent victims of everything due to the system, as if that somehow makes it okay that they still plotted a coup that, if successful, would have most likely resulted in Konoha's destruction. Such reasoning doesn't sound much different than the "I was simply following orders" defense that Nazi war criminals used at Nuremberg, which was seen as no excuse nor did it absolve them of responsibility, even if they didn't know what was going on with the higher-ups behind the scenes.
Basically, I feel that every side bears responsibility; the system, Tobirama, all the villages, the Uchiha Clan, etc. Naruto and Sasuke had the right idea in changing the system, but now neither one is even trying to make an attempt, just becoming new cogs in that very system.
What are your thoughts?