Thank you, Jonathan, for filing this! Though somewhat less well-known, "grandfather" (only the verb form, referring to the grandfather clause) has its origins in racist voter suppression. Could we add removing that to this bug as well? If used in a different sense (i.e., a node's grandfather in a data structure), I think that's not racially insensitive, though we might want to remove unnecessarily gendered language and change it to grandparent. Some resources: 1. [The Racial History Of The 'Grandfather Clause'](https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/10/21/239081586/the-racial-history-of-the-grandfather-clause) 2. [Words Matter: Why We Should Put an End to “Grandfathering”](https://medium.com/@nriley/words-matter-why-we-should-put-an-end-to-grandfathering-8b19efe08b6a)
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Thank you, Jonathan, for filing this! Though somewhat less well-known, "grandfather" (only the verb form, referring to the grandfather clause) has its origins in racist voter suppression. Since there are [a good number of uses in our codebase](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=grandfather&path=), could we add removing that to this bug as well? If used in a different sense (i.e., a node's grandfather in a data structure), I think that's not racially insensitive, though we might want to remove unnecessarily gendered language and change it to grandparent. Some resources: 1. [The Racial History Of The 'Grandfather Clause'](https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/10/21/239081586/the-racial-history-of-the-grandfather-clause) 2. [Words Matter: Why We Should Put an End to “Grandfathering”](https://medium.com/@nriley/words-matter-why-we-should-put-an-end-to-grandfathering-8b19efe08b6a)