Does ‘far right’ mean anything, any more? For the mainstream media, the phrase, like ‘fascist’ and ‘racist’, has long lost any connection to meaningful reality and just become a reflexive buzzword. Anyone and everyone they don’t like, and who is somewhat to the right of Marx and Lenin, is automatically ‘far right’. As the democratic West votes in droves against the ‘progressive’ left, the MSM are practically wearing their fingers to the bone typing, ‘far right!’, ‘far right!’, ‘far right!’
The MSM’s ‘far-right’ bogeymen don’t further righty-right-right than Germany’s extraordinarily successful Alternative for Deutschland (AfD). In the most recent elections, the AfD garnered the second-biggest vote count, to claim 152 seats, against the winning Christian Democratic Union’s 208, well ahead of the ousted Social Democratic Party and nearly twice the Greens. Cue demented screeching of FAR RIGHT!!
What, exactly, is ‘far right’ about the AfD? One might as well ask what is ‘conservative’ about the CDU.
Apart from the admittedly disputable policy of dialling back the culture of hair shirting over events of nearly a century ago, what really damns the AfD in the eyes of the MSM and the globalist establishment is its hard opposition to mass immigration.
Which makes pretty much all of the Western demos ‘far right’, apparently. Including the gays.
A survey of more than 60,000 gay German men by Europe’s largest gay dating platform, Romeo, found that almost 28 per cent of its users intend to vote for the AfD, making it the most popular party in Germany for gay men. The poll showed that the AfD did best among 18- to 24-year-olds: 34.7 per cent said they’d vote for the party. Among those aged 25 to 39, it was 32.3 per cent.
Even more interesting, the younger the gay guy, the more ‘far right’ they are.
Social attitudes have changed, even on the hard right. The AfD is led by Alice Weidel, an open lesbian whose partner is of Sri Lankan origin.
So, not just pro-gay, but actually gay and partnered to a brown immigrant. Remind me again, how is this ‘far right’?
If she was the head of any other German political party, the media would be holding her up as a progressive trailblazer.
Except that the media are, like the rest of the left, absolutely unquenchably addicted to mass immigration from the shitholes of the world. Almost all of whom are implacably hostile to gays.
Ever since Chancellor Merkel threw open the borders of Germany in 2015, the country has been dealing with an influx of asylum seekers, many coming from countries where being gay is seen as shameful or, in the most extreme cases, outlawed and punished with death. Many refugees have brought these attitudes with them and the impact is being felt across Germany.
Late last year, Berlin Police Chief Barbara Slowik warned people there were areas in the capital ‘where I would advise people who wear a kippah or are openly gay or lesbian to be more careful’. This was an extraordinary admission both because Germany is rightly sensitive about prejudice against Jews, and the city is famously gay-friendly, with hedonistic nightclubs like Berghain.
It’s the open borders, stupid.
Many gay men I spoke to felt their concerns were being ignored by the mainstream parties. ‘I think left-wing parties thought that the only thing gays cared about was their rights,’ says David, a gay student who didn’t want to give his full name. He doesn’t like the AfD’s social policies but his main concerns are ‘immigration, the economy and security’, so they will get his vote.
The AfD is also accused of being ‘anti-trans’ – which is just fine with gay men, and lesbian women, especially. The gay rights movement is sick of seeing everything they strived for being undermined by a tiny cohort of mentally ill cross dressers. Lesbians are appalled at being coerced into allowing male predators in wigs and lippy into their private spaces. Including their beds: trans activists regularly attack lesbian women who refuse sex with men in drag.
More fundamentally, though, transgenderism is erasing homosexuality itself by erasing gender. No one can be attracted to the same sex if the sexes simply don’t exist any more.
There is still controversy over the issue of trans rights within the AfD, who say they will get rid of a recently introduced self-identification law which allows people to ‘change sex’ simply by filling in a form. They cite the examples of a 28-year-old man who claimed he’d ‘changed sex’ but hadn’t had any surgery and who then tried to join a women’s only fitness studio, or the 47-year-old man who also claimed he’d ‘changed sex’ without completing gender reassignment surgery, and who has made a living bringing 239 sex discrimination cases to court. The law isn’t necessarily popular with gay men either. Utlu explains to me, ‘it says that there is no longer any sexuality, but only gender. If there is only gender, there can be no homosexuality’.
It’s not just a bunch of kraut pillow-biters who are turning ‘far right’, either.
French gays (a tautology?) are increasingly mincing over to the dark side and supporting Marine Le Pen.
The AfD’s success is part of a wider European trend, as the impacts of mass immigration and asylum are felt across the Continent. Over the border in France, a poll from 2017 found one in five gay men there would vote for the Rassemblement National party of Marine Le Pen. According to another poll, the party is especially popular with married gay men. Among the senior ranks of the party, there are many openly gay men, like Sébastien Chenu, Jean-Philippe Tanguy and Steeve Briois. The party has even been accused of ‘pinkwashing’ because of its success at winning over the gay vote.
Then there’s ‘far right’ Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.
How long before the media declare the rainbow a ‘hate symbol’ on a par with the swastika?
