• @Bassman1805
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    152 months ago

    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).

    • @Maalus
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      82 months ago

      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.

      • snooggums
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        12 months ago

        Narrator: They hated him for being right.

          • @ThunderWhiskers
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            22 months 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.