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Background Information
This compares refugees to poisonous candy and this is a very harmful and potentially very powerful form of propaganda because is so emotional and so simple
Technique Used
Activate Emotion
This is propaganda because
This comes from the Trump campaign and appeared on a Facebook post. It's part of the anti-immigration rhetoric that is at the heart of his campaign.

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    Christine Gilbert
    Mon, 10/03/2016 - 02:49
    Christine Gilbert
    This has been a haunting aspect of this election: comparing refugees, feeling for your lives, to poisonous candies. The refugee screening process is intense, which this image fails to portray. It is feeding into people's fear and does so with bright colors and candy. A haunting piece of propaganda.
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    Gregg
    Thu, 10/06/2016 - 08:45
    Gregg
    The false analogy makes this both effective and unethical. A poisoned skittle will most certainly kill you, but there is no sense in making the definite prediction that a person would.
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    Kate
    Fri, 02/03/2017 - 23:14
    Kate
    This is definitely harmful because 1. I just think that is just sooooo rude and 2. We can't just say that they're all bad so we can't take any.

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