First, the rule is never to use them for cultural reasons and that just replaces the cultural hegemony of one group with another.
Second, there's an advantage to everyone using the same names again and again. When I see the names, I know it's going to be a protocol discussion. If someone inserts, say, a Chinese name in the proper unicode with a slavic name in cyrilic, I've got to think and try to figure out what is going on. Eventually I'll catch on, but it slows down comprehension.
Where was it suggested that Alice and Bob names be banned altogether? Having one class/university use different names is far from erasure.
> replaces the cultural hegemony of one group with another
What new group would that be dominating the narrative? Is "all other cultures than anglo-saxon" a unified cultural group? Is this hypothetical group exerting power over others in what can be called "cultural hegemony" (cultural domination)?
From my perspective as a white French person, who was taught in schools/media that colonization was a virtuous enterprise to civilize lesser cultures, power is still vastly in the hands of racist misogynist people who control the entirety of the State apparatus and 95% of european economy. Having a few pockets of resistance challenge that status quo is barely a threat to the establishment.
> If someone inserts, say, a Chinese name in the proper unicode with a slavic name in cyrilic, I've got to think and try to figure out what is going on.
Of course. Just like a person learning cryptography in Russian/Chinese language can have a harder time to decipher what "Alice" and "Bob" are. But in this case, lessons are given in English using the latin alphabet: the suggestion was to use more diverse names, which does not require using a different alphabet.
Second, there's an advantage to everyone using the same names again and again. When I see the names, I know it's going to be a protocol discussion. If someone inserts, say, a Chinese name in the proper unicode with a slavic name in cyrilic, I've got to think and try to figure out what is going on. Eventually I'll catch on, but it slows down comprehension.