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Racist trolls sabotage NASA competition to block win by a black team
Proving that there are unlimited depths to which online trolls will sink, a group of 4chan users tried to sabotage a group of high school girls in a NASA science competition this weekend.
The trolls took offense to a tweet that likened the three teen girls, who are black, to the heroines in "Hidden Figures," a film about black women who worked for NASA during the space race of the 1960s. Crying “reverse racism” and “feminism,” the trolls lobbied for other entrants in the contest, and encouraged their comrades to “go incognito” and vote repeatedly for other contestants in order to tip the scales.
The trolls took offense to a tweet that likened the three teen girls, who are black, to the heroines in "Hidden Figures," a film about black women who worked for NASA during the space race of the 1960s. Crying “reverse racism” and “feminism,” the trolls lobbied for other entrants in the contest, and encouraged their comrades to “go incognito” and vote repeatedly for other contestants in order to tip the scales.