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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The vast majority of the time, nepotism refers to a patent giving their children special privileges due to the power the parent has.

The word itself comes from from the Italian word for "nephew", because of a trend of "nephews" of popes getting special privileges (often, these were the popes' illegitimate sons).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cool. And the literal definition of nepotism is granting advantage, priviledge or friends to relatives or friends in an occupation or field. So it doesn't matter that it's being used for parent - children mostly when it covers all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Narrator: They hated him for being right.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They hated him for being an insufferable pedant, more like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I dunno man I spent a weird amount of time rolling that idea around in my head before even getting to the pedants comment.