Of course this is true and in Salem they were hanged. But the thing that is similar is: once accused, forever guilty and not based on any provable facts. It is easy to see things in someone once they are accused. This has been a collision of two forces at once: the country shaped by Obama crashing into the utopia Trump created. Both the Me Too movement and now the antiracism wave are, to me, reactions to the fear caused by the rise of someone who is a great threat to people who believed their world was one way that then shattered. So no, you're right - you only lost your job and your reputation but that is a lot. It isn't your life but it isn't nothing.