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Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-08-12): One of the striking elements of Walz’s biography is his unusually deep connections to China. Walz first visited the country in 1989, just months after the Tiananmen Square protests, and returned to the country some 30 times afterward. As an educator and then a small business owner, he facilitated student groups’ trips to China. As a legislator, he served on the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, which monitors human rights and the rule of law in the country, and co-sponsored resolutions urging the release of democratic activist Liu Xiaobo and remembering the Tiananmen Square victims. [...] Yet in context, it’s clear that Walz was no dupe. During his teaching year, he visited Beijing (a 40-hour trip by rail) and saw Tiananmen Square, according to the Record. As much as Walz loved China and the Chinese people, his attitude toward the Chinese Communist Party was bluntly critical. Tiananmen Square, he told the Record, "will always have a lot of bitter memories for the people." (Walz later chose June 4 as his wedding date so he could "have a date he’ll always remember," according to his wife.)
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-01): 'I'm a knucklehead': Tim Walz says he 'misspoke' about Tiananmen Square visit [...] Gov. Tim Walz was asked by vice presidential debate moderators Tuesday about his past trips to China, after discrepancies arose about how many times he visited and whether he was there during the Tiananmen Square massacre. [...] Walz also once described being in Hong Kong in May 1989, during the student uprising that culminated in the Tiananmen Square massacre, the reporting from APM Reports notes — an assertion that is belied by newspaper accounts at the time.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-08-07): The fact that it happened in 1989 - the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre - was not lost on those commenting on Chinese social media. [...] Mr Walz and his wife were married on 4 June 1994 - the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen uprising. She said in an interview that "he wanted to have a date he'll always remember". [...] "Communist China is very happy with @GovTimWalz as Kamala’s VP pick," Richard Grenell, a former acting director of National Intelligence in the previous Trump administration, said on X.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-02): Walz misleadingly claims to have been in Hong Kong during period tied to Tiananmen Square massacre [...] WASHINGTON (AP) — Multiple news reports indicate that Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz misleadingly claimed he was in Hong Kong during the turbulence surrounding the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, part of a broader pattern of inaccuracies that Republicans hope to exploit. [...] Minnesota Public Radio reported Monday that publicly available accounts contradict a 2014 statement made by Walz, then a member of the U.S. House, during a hearing that commemorated the 25th anniversary of the massacre. Walz suggested that he was in the then-British colony of Hong Kong in May 1989, but he appears to have been in Nebraska. Public records suggest he left for Hong Kong and China in August of that year.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-02): Pressed about claims that he was in China during the Tiananmen Square massacre, despite contemporaneous news reports that placed him in Nebraska at the time, Walz downplayed his past comments. [...] Walz had said he was in Hong Kong in May and June, including on the day the massacre occurred in Beijing. "I was in Hong Kong on June 4, 1989, when, of course, Tiananmen Square happened. And I was in China after that. It was very strange, ’cause, of course, all outside transmissions were, were blocked — Voice of America — and, of course, there was no, no phones or email or anything. So I was kind of out of touch. It took me a month to know the Berlin Wall had fallen when I was living there," he said in a June 2019 radio interview, according to CNN.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-01): Walz says he "misspoke" when he claimed he was in China during Tiananmen Square The moderators asked Walz to address a past claim that he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre. The incident took place in the spring of 1989, but Walz reportedly didn't travel to Asia until August. [...] Details: In 2014, then-Rep. Walz said he was in mainland China during the Tiananmen Square protests between April and June 1989 during a congressional hearing to mark 25 years since the massacre. According to a congressional transcript, Walz said, "As the events were unfolding, several of us went in. I still remember the train station in Hong Kong."
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-02): Walz had said he was in Hong Kong in May and June, including on the day the massacre occurred in Beijing. [...] Walz admits he 'misspoke' about attending Tiananmen Square protests [...] Asked whether Walz was in Hong Kong in May 1989, as he said at the hearing and in a subsequent podcast interview, the campaign sent background information addressing Walz’s travel to and from China over the course of his life. It did not directly address the question.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-02): WALZ CLAIM: Walz was in China during the Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing Walz has repeatedly claimed he was in China during the Tiananmen Square, Beijing, protests during his year-long stint as a high school teacher in the southeastern Chinese town of Foshan starting in 1989. [...] As recently as in February, Walz said during an episode of the podcast "Pod Save America" that he was in Hong Kong during the protests. "I was in Hong Kong when it happened – I was in Hong Kong on June 4th when Tiananmen happened … Quite a few of our folks decided not to go in," he said, further expanding on the experience. "There was a lot of Europeans in Hong Kong [saying] don't do this, don't go, don't support them in this, and my thinking at the time was … what a golden opportunity to go tell how it was. And I did have a lot of freedom to do that, taught American history and could tell the story."
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-01): Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance and Democratic nominee Tim Walz debated in New York City, their sole face-to-face showdown of the 2024 election.
Claim: purports Florida middle school students will be taught that 'enslaved people benefited from slavery' (Post, 2023-07-20)
Evidence (2023-07-20): The post misconstrues a sentence on page six of the over 200-page State Academic Social Studies Standards List from the Florida Department of Education, which includes instruction on how “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
Claim: purports Florida middle school students will be taught that 'enslaved people benefited from slavery' (Post, 2023-07-20)
Evidence (2023-07-20): "They push forward revisionist history," Harris said July 20 at a national convention of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. "Just yesterday, in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery. They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it — we who share a collective experience in knowing we must honor history and our duty in the context of legacy." [...] Harris said Florida "decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery." [...] People, Florida middle schoolers will now be taught that slavery had ‘personal benefit’ for enslaved people, July 20, 2023
Claim: purports Florida middle school students will be taught that 'enslaved people benefited from slavery' (Post, 2023-07-20)
Evidence (2023-07-27): The middle school standards approved by the Florida state education board say students should learn about "skills" learned by slaves that could be "applied for their personal benefit." Several historians who have studied slavery cast doubt on this lesson’s educational value. [...] "They push forward revisionist history," Harris said July 20 at a national convention of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. "Just yesterday, in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery. They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it — we who share a collective experience in knowing we must honor history and our duty in the context of legacy." [...] Harris said Florida "decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery."
Claim: purports Florida middle school students will be taught that 'enslaved people benefited from slavery' (Post, 2023-07-20)
Evidence (2023-07-21): Florida's new Black history curriculum says "slaves developed skills" that could be used for "personal benefit" Florida's 2023 Social Studies curriculum will include lessons on how "slaves developed skills" that could be used for "personal benefit," according to a copy of the state's academic standards reviewed by CBS News. [...] "The intent of this particular benchmark clarification is to show that some slaves developed highly specialized trades from which they benefitted. This is factual and well documented," said Dr. William Allen and Dr. Frances Presley Rice, members of the group, before listing examples like Crispus Attucks and Booker T. Washington. "Any attempt to reduce slaves to just victims of oppression fails to recognize their strength, courage and resiliency during a difficult time in American history. Florida students deserve to learn how slaves took advantage of whatever circumstances they were in to benefit themselves and the community of African descendants."
Claim: purports Florida middle school students will be taught that 'enslaved people benefited from slavery' (Post, 2023-07-20)
Evidence (2023-07-20): Human Interest Human Interest News Social Issues News Florida Middle Schoolers Will Now Be Taught That Slavery Had ‘Personal Benefit’ for Enslaved People New academic standards slammed as "a big step backward" will require teachers to instruct that enslaved people "developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit" By Virginia Chamlee Virginia Chamlee Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for three years. Her work has previously appeared in The Washington Post, Buzzfeed, Eater, and other outlets. People Editorial Guidelines Published on July 20, 2023 03:59PM EDT Close Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Photo: Wilfredo Lee/AP/Shutterstock Newly approved academic standards from Florida’s Board of Education will require middle schools to teach that enslaved people "developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit" — a line that has ignited significant controversy among teachers' groups. The standards, which were approved Wednesday, come in response to the state's 2022 "Stop WOKE Act," which stated that race must be taught in "an objective manner" that does not "indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view."
Claim: purports Florida middle school students will be taught that 'enslaved people benefited from slavery' (Post, 2023-07-20)
Evidence (2023-07-21): A post shared on Twitter by Vice President Kamala Harris purports Florida middle school students will be taught that "enslaved people benefited from slavery." [...] "In the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery. They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it," Harris purported via her Twitter post, which reached over two million views. [...] Despite the misleading claim, multiple major news outlets, including CNN and USA Today, reported that the new educational standards would teach Florida students how enslaved people benefited from slavery. (RELATED: Has Florida Awarded 11,000 Teachers More Than $33 Million For Completing Civics Training?)
Claim: purports Florida middle school students will be taught that 'enslaved people benefited from slavery' (Post, 2023-07-20)
Evidence (2023-07-20): Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ to Black People Middle school students in Florida will soon be taught that slavery gave Black people a "personal benefit" because they "developed skills." [...] Ron DeSantis Takes Aim at Department of Education in New Lawsuit "I am very concerned by these standards, especially some of the notion that enslaved people benefited from being enslaved," state Rep. Anna Eskamani (D-Orlando) said, per Action News Jax.
Claim: purports Florida middle school students will be taught that 'enslaved people benefited from slavery' (Post, 2023-07-20)
Evidence (2023-07-27): PolitiFact FL: Do school standards say ‘enslaved people benefited from slavery,’ as Kamala Harris said? [...] "They push forward revisionist history," Harris said July 20 at a national convention of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. "Just yesterday, in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery. They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it — we who share a collective experience in knowing we must honor history and our duty in the context of legacy." [...] Harris said Florida "decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery."
Claim: purports Florida middle school students will be taught that 'enslaved people benefited from slavery' (Post, 2023-07-20)
Evidence (2023-07-25): "Just yesterday in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery," Harris, 58, said. "They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it." SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Florida Middle Schoolers Will Now Be Taught That Slavery Had ‘Personal Benefit’ for Enslaved People Watters, 45, criticized Harris' remarks on The Five and argued. "This is well documented among historians," Watters claimed. "This is historical fact that slaves did develop skills while they were enslaved and used those skills as blacksmiths, in agriculture, tailoring, in the shipping business, to then use to benefit themselves and their families once they were freed." Stating that the issue is "not controversial," Watters claimed that it "actually speaks to the resistance and the aptitude of the enslaved African Americans who were at the time able to better themselves and able to improve their situation despite brutal, brutal conditions."
Claim: purports Florida middle school students will be taught that 'enslaved people benefited from slavery' (Post, 2023-07-20)
Evidence (2023-07-20): "Just yesterday in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery," Harris continued. "They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it." Florida Middle Schoolers Will Now Be Taught That Slavery Had ‘Personal Benefit’ for Enslaved People Vice President Kamala Harris visits the site of the Highland Park, Illinois, mass shooting in 2022. Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images The academic standards were approved on Wednesday in response to Florida's 2022 "Stop WOKE Act," which requires race to be taught in "an objective manner" that does not "indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view." The new guidelines state that middle school teachers must now teach students about "the various duties and trades performed by slaves (e.g., agricultural work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing, transportation)." There is also a guideline directing educators to teach high schoolers about "acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans" when discussing Reconstruction after the Civil War.
Claim: purports Florida middle school students will be taught that 'enslaved people benefited from slavery' (Post, 2023-07-20)
Evidence (2023-07-20): Florida’s public schools will now teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills, part of new African American history standards approved Wednesday that were blasted by a state teachers' union as a "step backward." The Florida State Board of Education’s new standards includes controversial language about how "slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit," according to a 216-page document about the state’s 2023 standards in social studies, posted by the Florida Department of Education. [...] The union said it is troubling that at the high school level, the standards conflate the 1920 Ocoee Massacre, when at least 30 African Americans were killed for attempting to vote, with "acts of violence perpetrated by African Americans." And in middle school, the standards require students be taught slavery was beneficial to African Americans because it helped them develop skills, the union said.
Claim: purports Florida middle school students will be taught that 'enslaved people benefited from slavery' (Post, 2023-07-20)
Evidence (2023-07-27): Harris said Florida "decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery." [...] July 21, 2023 - People, Florida middle schoolers will now be taught that slavery had ‘personal benefit’ for enslaved people, July 20, 2023 - NBC News, New Florida standards teach that Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills, July 20, 2023 - BBC News, Florida's new black history curriculum 'sanitised', say critics, July 20, 2023 - Channel 10 Tampa Bay, Florida Department of Education stacks Black history task force with DeSantis allies, June 8, 2023 - Dr William Allen, Tweet, July 21, 2023 - Republican National Committee, Tweet, July 20, 2023 - The Independent, "DeSantis defends Florida curriculum that suggests slaves benefited from forced labour," July 23, 2023 - Email interview with Bruce Levine, emeritus professor of history at the University of Illinois and author of "Half Slave & Half Free: The Roots of Civil War," July 21, 2023 - Email interview, Ashley Rogers Berner, associate professor, Director of the Institute for Education Policy at Johns Hopkins University, July 21, 2023 - Email interview, Marvin Dunn, psychology professor emeritus at Florida International University, July 21, 2023 - Email interview, Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies Emory University, July 21, 2023 - Telephone interview,
Claim: purports Florida middle school students will be taught that 'enslaved people benefited from slavery' (Post, 2023-07-20)
Evidence (2023-07-25): Fact check: Does a new Florida curriculum teach that enslaved people 'benefited from slavery?' [...] "They push forward revisionist history," Harris said July 20 at a national convention of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. "Just yesterday, in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery. They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it — we who share a collective experience in knowing we must honor history and our duty in the context of legacy." [...] Harris said Florida "decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery."
Claim: purports Florida middle school students will be taught that 'enslaved people benefited from slavery' (Post, 2023-07-20)
Evidence (2023-07-20): The updated guidelines include a requirement that students learn "how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit". [...] When students are instructed on the various duties and trades performed by slaves, lessons must now include how these skills "in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit". [...] "Florida students deserve to learn how slaves took advantage of whatever circumstances they were in to benefit themselves and the community of African descendants," they said.
Claim: purports Florida middle school students will be taught that 'enslaved people benefited from slavery' (Post, 2023-07-20)
Evidence (2023-08-17): Middle school students in Mayade Ersoff’s Miami-Dade social studies class learn about the history of slavery in America through art. [...] But despite her students’ eagerness to learn, Ersoff will soon be forced to tailor her lesson plans to Florida’s new education standards, which require middle school students to learn "how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit." [...] "These standards are atrocious," Ersoff said. "There are no benefits (to slavery). There are no benefits to being grabbed from your home, shackled on boats, being lynched, being beaten. Not allowed to read and write. And treated like a piece of property."
Claim: purports Florida middle school students will be taught that 'enslaved people benefited from slavery' (Post, 2023-07-20)
Evidence (2023-07-20): The new standards require instruction for middle school students to include "how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit," a document listing the standards and posted in the Florida Department of Education website said.
Claim: purports Florida middle school students will be taught that 'enslaved people benefited from slavery' (Post, 2023-07-20)
Evidence (2023-07-26): One of the most widely criticized standards requires teachers to teach middle school students that under enslavement, some African Americans gained skills that later benefitted them. [...] DeSantis, who was in Utah for his presidential campaign, said in response to a media question he wasn’t involved in writing the standards but defended them, including the middle school standard on slavery. "They’re probably going to show some of the folks that eventually parlayed being a blacksmith into doing things later in life. These were scholars who put that together, it was not anything that was done politically." [...] The Florida middle school standard on the personal benefit from slavery echoes those past attempts at teaching Black history, though they are factually wrong as they imply Black people were unskilled prior to enslavement, King added.