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[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 36 points 11 months ago

“Grandfathered”

You keep using that word, but I don’t think you know what it means

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 27 points 11 months ago

It looks like they're using it correctly to me.

[-] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Do you think grandparents live forever?

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 37 points 11 months ago

Being grandfathered in actually would last forever.

The origin is, during racist bullshit, that one of the ways they "equally" opened extremely restrictive signups to vote was that, if your grandfather could vote, you could vote without dealing with the process designed to make it impossible to actually register. Being grandfathered in would pass to subsequent generations just as easily.

[-] donio@beehaw.org 14 points 11 months ago

TIL. The wikipedia article with some more detail.

[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago

I did not know this

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