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edit: I forgot about the scene where he kills the neo-Nazi, which is a giant disclaimer that "we're edgy but we're not so edgy that we're saying the WHITE RACE should dominate everything!" Yeah, that scene sucks.
Other than that, the problems Foster had with the restraining order, the unemployment, and not being able to solve his problems, are not anti-white.
I mean, you can read into the movie that the guy is completely at fault for all those things, but I think that's wrong. His foil the detective breaks away from the social conformity of his battleaxe wife at the end of the movie, suggesting he learned something from Foster bucking the system.
Not just a Nazi... a gay Nazi rapist. Because it turns out, every Neo-Nazi is actually secretly gay.
That entire sequence is so far out of left field in an already surrealistic film.
It also curbed the pace of the overarching (and escalating) theme of Murphy's Law applied to the zeitgeist; in many ways the movie embodied the end-result of Kaczynski's Industrial Society and Its Future (well before the manifesto became public), but then they had to go and toss in the "Nazis bad" narrative to subvert an otherwise awesome film.