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

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        19 days ago

        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.

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          19 days ago

          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

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        19 days ago

        Lesbian ourobourus eating her own ass is poetic somehow. Like Peter Thiel on a solid gold crucifix.

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      19 days ago

      Not really. She doesn’t even live in Germany but in Switzerland. She’s not governed by the laws her party wants to implement.

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    19 days ago

    Keep fighting yourselves, you dumb assholes. Don’t ever stop until the last of you drops. Our stupid country doesn’t manage to keep you at bay, maybe you do.

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    19 days ago

    You might think it’s a contradiction, but it isn’t.

    Law for thee, but not for me.

    Simple as.

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    19 days ago

    “Hey, stop this! We need to embrace our differences, realize that people are people and come together to hate OTHERS”

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      19 days ago

      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 :)

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    19 days ago

    “C’mon guys! Can we try and keep the hate directed at other minority groups, please? That’d be great. Thanks.”

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        19 days ago

        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.

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          19 days ago

          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.

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    19 days ago

    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.

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    18 days ago

    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.