# Why the need to deny bias that others have experienced?

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> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> “I don’t know that word, and therefore nobody else does.” :rolleyes:

I don’t know a lot of words, but they’re used nonetheless. Niggardly isn’t causally used outside of Eng lit. and it’s comparison to Nigger.

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