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Neo-nazis were the standard villain for a while, just like Russians and original Germans and so forth. If you want a pretty fair barometer of movie stereotypes just look at the Bond movies. "Tomorrow Never Dies" had a power-hungry villain.
I'm sorry, but I don't grant your premise. You listed one out of the four Lethal Weapons as having the "racist white guy" villain, and two of the three Die Hards. That's less than half of the total pictures. Strange Days was frankly awful and I really don't see the blatantly anti-white message, and Falling Down's view was not "skewed" unless you think white people can never snap and go on killing sprees. Finally, the skin color of Zion makes sense if you imagine that the population of the earth has been severely depleted and the survivors have been forced together instead of separated by borders. To quote "Fear of a Black Planet" "White man, black woman: black baby. Black man, white woman, black baby."
So, no, I don't see it happening all that much. Neo-nazis are a safe villain type -- no one will complain. Arabs are already cropping up as villains; see True Lies for a really offensive portrayal of stupid and evil Arabs. If you were of Russian descent you would have been complaining about this for 4 decades -- it is just Whitey's time to burn.
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