AfD party leader defends same-sex relationships despite party stance
The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Alice Weidel, who lives in a same-sex civil partnership, distanced herself on Sunday from part of a regional party manifesto backing the traditional family model, saying she lives “something different.”
“They can write whatever they like. I live something different,” Weidel said in response to a question from RTL/ntv about the election manifesto of the AfD in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
The manifesto states: “An intact family consisting of a mother, father and children has been proven to be the best foundation for a child’s healthy development.”
Weidel lives in a registered civil partnership with a woman, with whom she is raising two children.
“If you ask me personally: my children have the best upbringing and the best opportunities,” Weidel said on the sidelines of the AfD party conference in the eastern city of Erfurt.
“We are now living in a completely different reality. So same-sex relationships must be treated equally,” she added.
Weidel nonetheless defended her party’s fundamental stance towards the traditional family model. “When, as a politician, I speak of a societal ideal - and that is currently the traditional family - I can advocate it and there is no contradiction,” she said.
Source: DPA International via Microsoft’s MSN
IMO: Purely optics / strategic. She knows that Germany is not homophobic enough for the party to keep getting more voters with their current stance. They used extreme views to get their first, extreme voters, now they are trying to grab the big votes from the center.
“C’mon guys! Can we try and keep the hate directed at other minority groups, please? That’d be great. Thanks.”
Wouldn’t help that much since her partner is a non-white immigrant.
Even weirder, she herself is the immigrant, living most of the time in her wife’s native (*) Switzerland. She officially lives in Germany to avoid Swiss taxes, but spends little time here, preferring to influence our politics from outside the country.
/* I don’t think it makes a difference, but Switzerland is weird about citizenship- her wife was born in Sri Lanka and adopted by a Swiss couple. Native is not technically correct, but if they start drawing a distinction, there are bigger problems.
but if they start drawing a distinction, there are bigger problems.
Well, the AfD definitely does. And Switzerland might also at some point, since decisions like that are always just one poll away there.
You might think it’s a contradiction, but it isn’t.
Law for thee, but not for me.
Simple as.
How can people be this dumb? She is like a republican woman voter here in the states
She’s more opportunistic than dumb. She worked in finance and the AfD supports elimination of regulations for economy. IMHO she just tolerates the racist and homophobic stance from her party. And I’m pretty sure, this is more a warning, to keep quiet for legal reasons. And as a gay person she can frame this as critic so it looks like there is some real interest in gay rights. Weidel will never be harmed by any of the AfD politics, since her family lives in Switzerland.
That may be true, but I strongly suspect Ernst Rhom thought the same thing.
far right doesn’t exactly recruit the brightest.
I don’t know about dumb. First off, she lives in Switzerland with her wife and children, so she can mess with German politics as much as she wants and it won’t affect her private life that much. Might have to finally start paying taxes there though if she has to flee Germany.
Secondly, she lived in China for years, speaks Chinese fluently and probably is more popular on Chinese social media than in Germany. So there is another option why she might be interested in breaking Germany other than just stupidity.
JFC. How stupid can you be?
Fingers crossed it could lead them to further splitting. There is a trend among the European far right to tone down their rhetoric, which leads to in-fighting because the dissidents in their ranks think their party is not being bigoted enough, resulting in those dissidents forming their own party, which in turn split the right wing votes.
(See: “Reform UK” and “Restore Britain”)
a lesbian nazi is wild… like literally supporting people who want you dead?
The afd started out of hate/fear of war refugees of the Arabian spring and euro criticism from the Greek bankruptcy.
It’s not as much of a contradiction as you would think. It used to be less ultra right with a bourgeois wing that was well educated. There has been a schism since with those people leaving in the face of a blatant radical and extreme right. They always were (far) right, still.
I tried to be somewhat neutral, speaking from memory and not fact. Feel free to read up if you need citations :)
It’s not as much of a contradiction as you would think. It used to be less ultra right with a bourgeois wing that was well educated.
The emphasis here is on “used to”. It would not have been as much of a contratiction ten years ago, but the times of the retired economy professors are gone. And Weidel herself is a creature of the contemporary ultra-right AfD, so the contradiction is as strong as it seems.
Wait until you hear they’ve got a Jewish organization, too (only in German, sorry)
“Hey, stop this! We need to embrace our differences, realize that people are people and come together to hate OTHERS”
TELF: trans exclusionary lesbian fascist
Oh, you mean the far right lesbian who lives in Switzerland, not Germany.
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Wait wait wait… She expected a far right party would accept her reality? In which reality is she in?
Alice clearly is living in Wonderland. Or believes she is at least.
Their party: “Don’t worry, we promise to kill you last!”
AFD’s leader is lesbian? Next thing you’re gonna tell me US president’s wife is an immigrant!
She is an immigrant from a second world (oficially, in my opinion as a Slovenian: third world) country. But importantly, she’s straight, cis, non-disabled, neurotypical white immigrant, so it’s fine apparently.
Weidel’s a lesbian who doesn’t live in Germany and has a non-white immigrant partner. So she pretty much represents the opposite of what her party stands for or wants to stand for.
Makes me wonder why she’s part of a far right party then…
Unless it’s a thought process like “it’s the others, not me!1!!”
Does remind me of the whole gay republicans thing in the US (I guess it is the same thing though)
She doesn’t realize they will kill her if they get their way. Well, after.
And racist. Right?
With a brown immigrant wife*
People like this are more common than a lot of people think. I actually knew somebody like this in my life.
Between 2021 and 2023, I dated a girl who was living in some crappy apartment with two other female roommates, one of which was a Hispanic butch lesbian. This woman was something else. She’s hates, HATES trans people and is very vocal about it. Just the thought of their existence makes her seethe. She hates them so much that she’s vocally against pride, the LGBTQ movement, and progressive Democrats because they include and advocate for trans people. She actually votes Republican for the sole purpose of them fruther eroding trans rights.
I asked once her why she hates trans people so much even though they don’t affect her life in any way, and she told me that she can’t stand the thought of men pretending to be women in order to invade women’s spaces. To her, trans people are mentally ill parasites that need to be oppressed back into oblivion in order to not appropriate femineity and thus muck up her perfect world.
People like this are not clearly not driven by logic otherwise they wouldn’t be what they are. We often make fun of MAGA types for having incoherent views and voting against their interests, but the more people I meet the more I’m realizing that these types of idiots exist in every demographic. They will proudly uphold their bigotry even if it leads to their own demise.
In this interview video, one of the interviewees talks about how they (a trans man) and a man dating a Hispanic partner both shared those secrets while they were members of a murderous white supremacist neo-Nazi organisation. This is not, by a long shot, the only similar cases I’ve seen, only the first which came to mind.
In my own country, a neo-Nazi group which tried to register the White Australia Party had a member with Central American heritage in their own flash mob (Alexander Gabriel Mare), and infamously had a love-hate relationship with this absolute clown of a member (fun video, even if sometimes confronting, with a happy ending).
Well, that’s your run-off-the-mill TERF there.
