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ItachiWasAHero wrote: The Uchiha weren't allowed to hold any other position of power. That is about the only true discrimination I could think of happening to them.

Itachi being an ANBU Captain is a huge position, putting him under Hiruzen's arm, maybe even aspiring to be a right hand man one day.