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

She's the leopard, though

Leoparde ourobouros

Yeah but she's one of the good ones! /s

Hey Alice. Google Ernst Röhm. There’s your future

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

And racist. Right?

Poor reading comprehension there. Read the comment you're replying to again.

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

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.

Quisling.

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.

Wait wait wait... She expected a far right party would accept her reality? In which reality is she in?

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.

AFD's leader is lesbian? Next thing you're gonna tell me US president's wife is an immigrant!

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.

Wouldn't help that much since her partner is a non-white immigrant.

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.

Lol! I think she took a wrong turn somewhere when she signed up for this job.

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

Law for thee, but not for me.

Simple as.

With a brown immigrant wife*

"Get them! Destroy them! ... not me, though. You don't get me."

Lol that must be some serious cognitive dissonance headache.

JFC. How stupid can you be?

a lesbian nazi is wild... like literally supporting people who want you dead?

Or that his grandma was an immigrant 6 months along with his dad who got to be a citizen because of the birthright rules.

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.

Their party: "Don't worry, we promise to kill you last!"

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.

AFD controlled by a foreigner, and is of the LGTBQ+, i wonder if thiel is friends with her. they both hate thier own people.

shes like SCaR controlling the HYENAs, he has to keep thier bellies fed or the hyenas will turn on her.

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.

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"

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

Alice clearly is living in Wonderland. Or believes she is at least.

How can people be this dumb? She is like a republican woman voter here in the states

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 :)

far right doesn't exactly recruit the brightest.

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.

She's a politician first, a lesbian second.

Oh, you mean the far right lesbian who lives in Switzerland, not Germany.

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

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.

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.

Well, that's your run-off-the-mill TERF there.

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.