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Leave the guy alone. Do you have daughter with a life threatening disease? And If you answer yes and can still dog him for this than you have some soul searching to do.
 
Actually, I think Camby and Dalembert are reasonably handsome guys. It's that Greg Smith that looks like a walking sphincter.
 
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We are nothing but a bunch of classless fans.
SHAME ON ALL OF YOU.
 
I am all for cancer jokes - ESPECIALLY at Fishers expense. While I'm here, I love a good mom joke, Chuck Norris, black, Mexican, Jew, and/or Muslim joke.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
Explain. Again, both aren't preventible, especially cancers like retinoblastoma in children. So, I assume, you think it's okay to make a joke rooted in someone's child having cancer, but not okay to make a joke rooted in someone's child being retarded?
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Three things:

1. Cancer is curable. Obviously not in every case, but many, many people who have been diagnosed with cancer have been able to overcome it. I have never heard of anyone being cured of retardation.

2. "Retard" is commonly used in a defamatory manner, to infer lack of intelligence. You don't hear things like, "Smooth move, cancer patient." Before you wade into the waters of comparing "cancer" as a derogatory term (as in, "DWill is a locker room cancer") please note that, in this respect, it is the cancer itself, and not the cancer patient that is being compared.

3. It is a bit of a leap to assert that disdain for Fisher's actions equals disdain for his daughter or her condition. These are two separate issues that you seem to be unable to distinguish. I don't remember anybody making a joke about Fisher's daughter. If I'm wrong, feel free to enlighten me.

Personally, I don't care about Fish. He did what he did, and I don't care if hos motivations were pure or not. He struck a deal with Larry, so that was that. It's a little funny that there are still some hung up over that whole situation. A lot of it is probably frustration with no movement on the trade front.

Hope that clears it up for ya!
 
Bronco70 said:
Three things:

1. Cancer is curable. Obviously not in every case, but many, many people who have been diagnosed with cancer have been able to overcome it. I have never heard of anyone being cured of retardation.

2. "Retard" is commonly used in a defamatory manner, to infer lack of intelligence. You don't hear things like, "Smooth move, cancer patient." Before you wade into the waters of comparing "cancer" as a derogatory term (as in, "DWill is a locker room cancer") please note that, in this respect, it is the cancer itself, and not the cancer patient that is being compared.

3. It is a bit of a leap to assert that disdain for Fisher's actions equals disdain for his daughter or her condition. These are two separate issues that you seem to be unable to distinguish. I don't remember anybody making a joke about Fisher's daughter. If I'm wrong, feel free to enlighten me.

Personally, I don't care about Fish. He did what he did, and I don't care if hos motivations were pure or not. He struck a deal with Larry, so that was that. It's a little funny that there are still some hung up over that whole situation. A lot of it is probably frustration with no movement on the trade front.

Hope that clears it up for ya!
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For me it is the fact that I have had two extremely close family relations die within the last 6 months from cancer.

Edit: That has clouded my view of the issue.
 
Gojazz79 said:
For me it is the fact that I have had two extremely close family relations die within the last 6 months from cancer.

Edit: That has clouded my view of the issue.
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I can appreciate that. Cancer isn't a laughing matter. I have lost family to it myself. But I don't consider the Fisher cracks an affront to those who have cancer. Fisher is ridiculed because he is perceived as having taken advantage of his daughter's condition to make a professional move that he otherwise wouldn't have been able to, at that point. Whether or not he did is irrelevant. The point is, Fisher and his motives are the target of the jokes, not his daughter or her condition.
 
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