Imagine this: You are Hispanic, black or Asian. You have a heart condition and need a heart transplant to live. You visit a Major Hospital and meet with A Major Cardiologist, and then you receive a letter in which the doctor has recommended against the transplant "given your ethnicity, the complexity of the process, multiple procedures and unpredictable effect of steroids on behavior." Now imagine this: You are watching the recent Comedy Central roast of Roseanne Barr. Wayne Brady turns to fellow comedian Jeff Ross and jokes, "A lot of people hate you, especially because you remind us all of what a Jewish person will look like when he's 40!" Mind-boggling, right? What hospital would blatantly deny a person based on their ethnicity? What comedian would crack a joke about a Jew like that? Sure, plenty of comedians are equal-opportunity offensive, but good ones wouldn't jest that an entire ethnic group is ugly because it's just not funny. Now know this: Paul Corby is a 23-year-old with a defective heart and high-functioning autism.

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