Here’s something completely amazing to learn: Raytheon sponsors the Girl Scouts’. Don’t believe me? Here’s a title of press announcement that’s on the Girl Scouts announcement:
Raytheon Sponsors Girl Scouts’ First National Computer Science Program and Cyber Challenge for Middle and High School Girls.
“Raytheon and Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) are launching GSUSA’s first national computer science program and Cyber Challenge fo middle and high school girls.” This program aims to help Girl Scouts get future jobs in “cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data science.”
Raytheon CEO, Thomas A. Kennedy, says that the company is doing this in the name of diversity, and that we’re in “a time when technology is transforming the way we live and work, we can-and should-show you women a clear path to taking an active role in this transformation.”
Raytheon’s work with the Girls Scouts is so that more girls would get more jobs under what’s called STEM; an education and career in science, technology, engineering, and math. But when Raytheon is the one getting involved, that means we want more women building shit that blows up.
In 2016, a Saudi-led coalition bombed a community center in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital. The airstrike hit the community center four times, killed over 140 people, and wounded 525. The bomb fragments found were MK-82 guided bombs. As the Intercept wrote in 2016:
The MK-82 is a 500-pound explosive weapon manufactured in the United States. The code “96214” indicates that the bomb was produced by Raytheon, the third-largest defense contractor in the United States.
Come on Girl Scouts girls, grow up and make bombs, and fly drones that drop bombs, that kill thousands of people. Most of the civilian casualties of the war in Yemen have been caused by Saudi-led coalitions, which means corporations like Raytheon have made money from this.
The Girl Scouts are working with a corporation that is part of a culture that is “making a killing on killing” and as Alternet points out:
Companies like Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman, some of whom are also currently profiting from the construction of immigrant detention facilities. The CEO’s of those companies took home a combined salary of $96 million. Meanwhile, a U.S. worker on minimum wage cannot afford a standard two-bedroom apartment, working 40 hours a week.
I’m not going to worry about it that much though. If I had a daughter, she wouldn’t be in Girl Scouts anyways.
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