Ashton Kutcher releases a video Tuesday that explained why he believes those who say “all lives matter” need to be educated.
What’s going on:
- Kutcher posted a video to Instagram that explained the “all lives matter” phrase can be counterproductive to protests and movements. He said those who say “all lives matter” should be educated.
- Kutcher said he experienced the importance of the issue when he was putting his children to sleep. He said his daughter will often read a story first before going to bed. But his son asked why she went first.
- Kutcher said: “Tonight, as we were reading her book, my son says, ‘Wait, why don’t I get to go first?’ And Mila said, ‘Because girls go first,’ and he said, ‘Yeah, but boys go first.’ And I looked at him, and I said, ‘No, girls go first.’”
- “And I said, ‘You know why girls go first?’ ‘For you and me, girls go first, and the reason why is for some boys, girls don’t get a go at all.’”
- “I think what folks that are writing ‘all lives matter’ need to understand is that for some people black lives don’t matter at all. So for us, black lives matter.”
- “So while you may have the best intentions in saying ‘all lives matter’ remember, to some people black lives don’t matter at all.”
Seth Rogen shares a similar message
Seth Rogen said something similar about the “Black Lives Matter” phrase. He said in an Instagram post that he doesn’t appreciate those who don’t like the phrase, according to USA Today.
“If this is a remotely controversial statement to you, feel free to unfollow me,” he wrote.