It's not about a white guy attacking minorities. It's just about a guy sick of spending every moment grinding to merely exist with no real time for pleasure in a world running only for profit and not people, who just can't take it any more. If you're looking at skin color, you're missing the point. He's all of us. We're all stuck in it. Many feeling the same way.

(Holds up a mirror.)

Look, I'm not saying the choices made in the making of the film were all good. There was some obvious bias there, but that was (& honestly mostly still is) an artifact of who provides the funding to make most Hollywood films. We have a long legacy wherein rich, bigoted white assholes run most everything, and they're control freaks who demand their preferred POV be used. Whether & which of those involved in the making of the film are of the same mindset, I cannot say.

I see the film as a relatively early critique of the enshitification of our society by those same assholes, and so that it got made at all is a minor miracle. Potential compromises in the integrity of those involved in getting it done are easy to pick at roughly 35 years after the fact, but - while the racism is kinda blatant - I don't think it should invalidate the entire message the movie was trying to convey.