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Apparently I'm three degrees of separation from John Brown (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by happybadger@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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I broke up with a right-wing democrat ex when she proudly told me that she was a direct descendent of Stonewall Jackson and then defended him because her plantation aristocracy family was wealthy as a result of having so many officers > Stonewall Jackson hanged John Brown which I just learned tonight

Three degrees of separation from the Prophet Muhammad, three degrees of separation from the Cool Guy John Brown.

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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

There's the Neat Genes Leap-Grandpa Exception (NGL-GE) where it counts as one degree if it's the same family and that family has a notable person in it and you want it to be fewer degrees even though that's not how it works. This means I can't use a common ancestor like Charlemagne unless I'm dating a Carolingian, but I can use one like the Prophet Muhammad if they're a registered Sayyida and the Iranian government went back through the records to prove it.