Jiggo, I get that you're trying to be an equal-opportunity offender but you are conflating very different things.
You are absolutely correct that there is employment discrimination against people with unusual names. But you haven't dug deeper and understood why.
1. Studies (such as
this one) show that the reason those with unusual African-American names have trouble getting employed is because of white racism, not the names themselves.
That
same black person, had they been named, "John" wouldn't necessarily get hired, either. They would just get knocked out of consideration later in the process, perhaps at the in-person interview stage.
2. Further
other studies also show that when you take people with "strange" names and then control for race, income, opportunity, networking connections, etc. that
there is no evidence that a name in itself does any damage to employability.
It's not the name, it's the other factors, primarily racism and opportunity.
Your main thesis is simply wrong. What you are attributing to the name is actually attributable to racism, among other factors.
That
last thing you'd want to argue is that society ought to bend toward the will of the racists. Rather, it should be the opposite: we should oppose and resist racism in all forms (including names) and not give in to it as "just the way things are."
