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>Can you provide stories of accused communists starving to death due to the blacklist?

They were more likely to commit suicide for lack of work. See: Philip Loeb and Bartley Crum, for two.



And https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/02/title-ix-case... presents evidence of people accused but not convicted of sexual assault of committing suicide in response.

The analogy remains accurate.

Should you doubt the analogy, I strongly recommend reading http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/14/when-kids-are-a... to see how the modern "sexual assault equivalent of the communist blacklist catches children in its net, and what the impact is. Do you think that this is rare? Read https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/227763.pdf for evidence that 1/4 of registered sex offenders were themselves juveniles at the time of the offense.




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