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
JFC. How stupid can you be?
She’s the leopard, though
Leopard ourobouros
shes the attempt at batesian mimicry for the far right, if she acts and look like far right groups, maybe she wont get eaten, in reality she is pretty defenseless, harmless.
I dont get how someone like her even gets involved much less embraced by such a party and political base.
Heard of self-hating people in parties that should hate them too like Cash Patel and whoever that jackass brown guy who was running before their Primary was but the AfD gay chick leader is an insane development.
They do love a self-hating speciment tho
haters love it when some token minority appears to legitimize their claims.
Lesbian ourobourus eating her own ass is poetic somehow. Like Peter Thiel on a solid gold crucifix.
Not really. She doesn’t even live in Germany but in Switzerland. She’s not governed by the laws her party wants to implement.
AFD controlled by a foreigner, and is of the LGTBQ+, i wonder if thiel is friends with her. they both hate thier own people.
Poor reading comprehension there. Read the comment you’re replying to again.
She’s against this policy (so not the leopard) and she’s not living in a jurisdiction where her party operates. She’s neither leopard nor the one getting her face eaten. She’s merely scum outside this metaphor.
She is part of the leopard party and is helping them accomplish their evil goals. She’s a leopard.
She’s the head leopard, even.
shes like SCaR controlling the HYENAs, he has to keep thier bellies fed or the hyenas will turn on her.
Yeah but she’s one of the good ones! /s
Their party: “Don’t worry, we promise to kill you last!”
You might think it’s a contradiction, but it isn’t.
Law for thee, but not for me.
Simple as.
a lesbian nazi is wild… like literally supporting people who want you dead?
Wait until you hear they’ve got a Jewish organization, too (only in German, sorry)
well some jews in the middle east are really good at killing arabs and they hate those more.
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.
Hey Alice. Google Ernst Röhm. There’s your future
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”)
“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.
Lol that must be some serious cognitive dissonance headache.
Lol! I think she took a wrong turn somewhere when she signed up for this job.
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.
I’m just going to put this out there, it’s not all LGs that seem to be nazis, but out of all LGBTQIA+ people expressing views, LGs are the only ones that turn out to be nazis.
Oh, you mean the far right lesbian who lives in Switzerland, not Germany.
In an interracial relationship no less.
can a face get eaten any more than that?
And racist. Right?
With a brown immigrant wife*
Look. I recognize you can’t always fully 100% agree with any polical party you vote for, or even work for, but if one of their core values is that they essentially don’t want you to exist, surely this is one of those barriers that just can’t overcome?
It’s the same with people that say political differences should not proclude people from being friends, full stop. I agree to an extent, but there’s definately limits. If you vote for a party that’d preferabbly have my wife removed from my country, you can’t reasonably expect me to just gloss over that.
How can people be this dumb? She is like a republican woman voter here in the states
far right doesn’t exactly recruit the brightest.
She’s a politician first, a lesbian second.
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.
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.
Quisling.
