I've seen it occasionally among people with physical
disabilities.   I've thought it might be a type of
jealousy ("I'm not any longer the center of
attention."  or  "I won't get as much physical help as
I want/need."), but that's just speculation.
BOB

At 11:55 AM 4/10/2003, you Kendall Corbett wrote:
I've got kind of a strange question that I thought
Bobby, as a retired
academician, might have the best handle on, but that
others might have
an interest in as well;  Is there information
available about people
within a minority group expressing prejudice against
other members of
that minority group, or a smaller subset within that
group?  The
situation I've encountered is a person with CP and
some cognitive
challenges explicitly expressing prejudice against
other people with
physical and/or cognitive disabilities that he
interacts with.  This
persons cognitive issues are mild enough that he can
reason, but it just
floored me when he expressed such obvious prejudice
against others who
were not much different than himself.

Kendall Corbett
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