I’ve no idea how they were treated in real life in the West, partially because I’ve never met one, but I understand that some have been ill-treated in the African continent and they don’t live long there. China too has had superstitions about them.
As to OP, why evil? I dunno. Red eyes, maybe? But there are plenty of albino heroes in fiction that there probably isn’t any fixed reason, other than superstition. Which persists IRL today in some parts of the world.
Not having read any of the TVtropes articles or anything my guess would be it’s because they’re angry over their upbringing.
Ironically enough, I’m reading a book right now (The Seventh Plague by James Rollins) which features Albino twins as enemies. They’re assassins/killers and such because they were abused and ridiculed for their looks that they wanted revenge and became bad.
It’s an easy story to tell “person who is different is angry at their oppressors” so I doubt it’s a bias or prejudice and more laziness of storytelling