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.