-> From my cursory reading of that silliness, I understand, at
-> least from Ross's assertion that he was quoting a relative.

It is a long, long, LONG running exchange.  For years, Ross tried to
discredit anything Tim said on any subject, in any echo, by digging up
similar snippets from his past posts.  Tim's response can be seen as
"turnabout is fair play" or "two wrongs don't make a
right," take your
pick.  Ross has made a number of amazingly bigoted comments over the
years (based on race, religion, gender, and so on), so he shouldn't be
surprised to see them reappear when HE accuses others of the same.

The old "I was quoting someone else" dodge is amusing, though.  He has
also used the variations of "I was quoting a freeper" or "I
was quoting
a Klansman" when people object to his language.  But the original post
almost never says something like "I saw a news clip of the protest on
CNN, and there was a Klansman who was SO BIGOTED that he kept saying
bleep."  It just says "bleep," so the fact that he thinks it
is okay to
say "bleep" just because someone else did is laughable.  And when he
tries to explain away his own comments on race by claiming that his
father, his aunt, and other members of his family are racist, well, that
is a really strange alibi.

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