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Bassman1805@lemmy.world 2 years agoThe 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@lemmy.world 2 years 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.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Narrator: They hated him for being right.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
They hated him for being an insufferable pedant, more like.
ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 2 years 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.