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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 month ago (3 children)

His son works for Netflix and got him a show.

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

...nepodaddy?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't that be "nepo daddy"

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's still nepotism...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

nepo reverse-baby, then

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's for emphasis.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

No it isn't, it is literally nonsense. There is no such thing as "reverse nepotism".

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

Reverse nepotism is where your dad goes around to anywhere that might hire you and badmouths you until they won’t.

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

Nah I'm with this homie, reverse nepobaby is too made up. It's just regular nepotism. He's a nepot

[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes but he didn't say reverse nepotism he said reverse nepobaby as it wasn't the parent getting the child a job but the other way round. It's still nepotism but nepobaby is a more specific term.