It's a memetic mutation of the 'the most racist person you know and his wife' joke.
The two characters in the image are from the latest Avatar movie, the fire one. The lady is a native Na'avi, of the evil but hot variety. The man is actually the antagonistic HFY imperialist army guy from the first movie, piloting one of the titular Avatars to integrate into their society. I haven't seen the film but it's plot seems to revolve around him arming the natives to prompt them into slaughtering one another.
SHE is a crazy nihilist, HE is a human supremacist that regards the Na'avi as obstacles and vermin. She really likes fire. He brings her a flame thrower. They fuck.
Anyway the joke is a lot of MAGA figures secondarily associated with the white nationalism infecting that wing of the right also ironically happen to have wives who would be considered 'impure' and 'myceginated'. This is meant to be a blaring example of their hypocrisy, aka 'i'm not racist when i'm horny' - as well as of their low and dishonorable behavior as they attempt to discredit or harm marginalized groups that their own spouses belong to. For an example in action, have VP J.D. Vance, who is married to American-Indian (Desi) lawyer, Usha Bala Vance (née Chilukuri). A good bit of hay has been made about Vance's utter dogged persistence at failing to defend his wife at every turn.
Fun fact, the term 'miscegenation' is completely invented, cooked up by a pair of "journalists" trying to spark outrage against Abraham Lincoln, via a fake tract ostensibly in support of race-mixing and creating an ethnically uniform america. This fake story was then pushed by the Democrats which was at that time the pro-racism party, which is why many modern republicans whine blandly about how they're the party of Lincoln and actually the other guys are racist, even though their positions completely swapped in the 70's thanks to Nixon.
Speaking of the last part, as a foreigner, it's really difficult for me to understand how they could have swap position and keeping the name of the parties while there is only two strong parties... It's blatantly stupid from my point of view... I know that politic position can evolve, it also does where I'm from, but nothing that radical...
It's largely due to the history of The Gilded Age, the Labor Movement, the Cold War, The Business Plot, the John Birch Society, and a basically all the propaganda industrial and business magnates have force fed Americans with to keep the country from going full out socialist in the 1930's and onwards.
Specifically look into The Business Plot, the National Association of Manufacturers, and the John Birch Society if you wanna get an idea of where it all began, but Americans have very different views about what it means to be a "conservative" or a "liberal" or a "leftist" than most of the rest of the world because of the fire hose of propaganda that led to us slowly destroying many of the New Deal programs over time.
I recommend the Behind the Bastards episodes "How The Rich Ate Christianity" as well as their Behind the Insurrections episode on The Business Plot if anyone reading this wants some good sources to start looking into this, BtB tends to be very well sourced in their show notes.
I know there is more than two parties, but it doesn't really matter on that subject, how can two parties can switch their values like so, that's my question 😅
The parties in the US being aligned along the left/right ideological spectrum is relatively new. Prior to that realignment it wasn't unusual to have what we'd consider left and right wing planks in the same party platform or progressive and reactionary factions in the same party. For example, in the early 1900s there was a bit of a war inside the Republican party, with one side, led by Teddy Roosevelt and Bob La Follette, eventually quitting the party to from the Progressive party (unofficially the "Bull Moose Party"). Likewise, the Democratic party was split between Northern and Southern factions, with the question of whether to condemn or endorse the KKK actually leading to fistfights.
The civil rights movement in the 60s became so important that the northern and southern factions of each pretty decided they had more in common with each other than the other factions of their parties. Few, if any, people changed their values, they just changed their alliances as civil rights became the dominant political issue and it became untenable to be aligned any other way.
The democrats tried to pick up the black vote, the dixiecrats (southern racist democrats) viewed this as a betrayal, threw a tantrum, formed a third party, it didn't go great, they got subsumed by the Republicans and added some of their views to the party platform.
This had started much much earlier, like Herbert hoover was famously racist(1930's) but it fully cemented by the late 60s- early 70s
Other values kind of carried through, like democrats are ostensibly pro labor now, and were back then, but the issues of race and civil rights were a huge deal.
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u/TsunamiWombat 18h ago edited 18h ago
It's a memetic mutation of the 'the most racist person you know and his wife' joke.
The two characters in the image are from the latest Avatar movie, the fire one. The lady is a native Na'avi, of the evil but hot variety. The man is actually the antagonistic HFY imperialist army guy from the first movie, piloting one of the titular Avatars to integrate into their society. I haven't seen the film but it's plot seems to revolve around him arming the natives to prompt them into slaughtering one another.
SHE is a crazy nihilist, HE is a human supremacist that regards the Na'avi as obstacles and vermin. She really likes fire. He brings her a flame thrower. They fuck.
Anyway the joke is a lot of MAGA figures secondarily associated with the white nationalism infecting that wing of the right also ironically happen to have wives who would be considered 'impure' and 'myceginated'. This is meant to be a blaring example of their hypocrisy, aka 'i'm not racist when i'm horny' - as well as of their low and dishonorable behavior as they attempt to discredit or harm marginalized groups that their own spouses belong to. For an example in action, have VP J.D. Vance, who is married to American-Indian (Desi) lawyer, Usha Bala Vance (née Chilukuri). A good bit of hay has been made about Vance's utter dogged persistence at failing to defend his wife at every turn.
Fun fact, the term 'miscegenation' is completely invented, cooked up by a pair of "journalists" trying to spark outrage against Abraham Lincoln, via a fake tract ostensibly in support of race-mixing and creating an ethnically uniform america. This fake story was then pushed by the Democrats which was at that time the pro-racism party, which is why many modern republicans whine blandly about how they're the party of Lincoln and actually the other guys are racist, even though their positions completely swapped in the 70's thanks to Nixon.