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
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.
Well, that’s your run-off-the-mill TERF there.
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Feminist spaces attract a lot of people who are incredibly insecure. I remember a young woman who was shunned from the feminist community in my city after she brought her newborn son to a female only meeting. One faction was livid that she had invaded their safe space with a future rapist.
I feel bad for them but I’ve learned not to take them too seriously. At the end of the day, they’re just bigots, not even with a twist.
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Of course not because no sane trans person wants to associate with someone this hateful. Keep in mind, her hatred is not restricted to trans women, but also trans men. She sees them as posers and traitors akin to the Jews who collaborated with Nazis in the concentration camps in order to get an extra sausage… she’s not a mentally well person.
Keep in mind, the transphobia of terfs is just a byproduct of their extreme misandry. They hate men to an irrational degree. To them anyone who is not a “pure” woman is an enemy. They hate all men regardless of age, race, nationality, economic position, or views. They even hate little boys and women who have good relationships with men.
The woman I talked about has a lot, and I really do mean a lot, of exes because she accuses every woman she dates of secretly being straight for having normal relationships with their male relatives, friends, and even coworkers. She constantly tries to control, manipulate, and isolate her gfs into abandoning all their male relationships to pursue her weird crusade of female liberation. She’s like the personification of the feminazi pejorative.
My ex’s roommate and other bigots like her are beyond normal words. Logical arguments don’t mean anything to them. Over time, I’ve come to realize that this is ultimately a mental health issue that just manifests itself in this form. Freedom of bigotry always comes at the expense of others, and therefore I’ve come to support the idea of having a state backed program that finds these people, reaches out to them, and provides them with help like therapy because they’re heading a path of self destruction. You can’t hate your way to a happy, healthy life.
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 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.
She’s a politician first, a lesbian second.
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.
Hey Alice. Google Ernst Röhm. There’s your future
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.
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)
“Get them! Destroy them! … not me, though. You don’t get me.”
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Or that his grandma was an immigrant 6 months along with his dad who got to be a citizen because of the birthright rules.
She’s the leopard, though
Yeah but she’s one of the good ones! /s
Not really. She doesn’t even live in Germany but in Switzerland. She’s not governed by the laws her party wants to implement.
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.
AFD controlled by a foreigner, and is of the LGTBQ+, i wonder if thiel is friends with her. they both hate thier own people.
Leopard ourobouros
Lesbian ourobourus eating her own ass is poetic somehow. Like Peter Thiel on a solid gold crucifix.
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
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.
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”)
You might think it’s a contradiction, but it isn’t.
Law for thee, but not for me.
Simple as.
She doesn’t realize they will kill her if they get their way. Well, after.
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 :)
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.
JFC. How stupid can you be?
Oh, you mean the far right lesbian who lives in Switzerland, not Germany.
In an interracial relationship no less.
Their party: “Don’t worry, we promise to kill you last!”
