While I want to agree with you, if you Google my first name/last name [real name, not this alias] you get two people in many cases. One is a member of a racial minority while one is not. Due to how similar our situations are [age, area code, zip code, location, etc] we sometimes are confused for the other. However anyone who understands IT would realize we have two completely different types of jobs [he is more a sysadmin while I'm more backend in general] but there is still a good deal of keyword overlap.

For shits and giggles, I replaced the link to my linkedin account with his to a place that had already rejected me without explanation [and had a public "diversity policy"]. I used the same resume other than the line in their form for a linkedin/social media account.

I got a phone interview and an invitation for an on-site interview. Now its possible its just coincidence but it was an interesting anecdotal data point. I'm saying they were discriminating against me because I'm a white male, I've just noticed that I've literally never had an on-site interview at any company that has a written and publicly known "diversity policy" [with one exception which I rejected because I consider them unethical].

Now, this could all be coincidence. But I'm honestly worried there is a certain disconnect when people tell me that this example was "okay, because AlexanderNigma is a white male and has the deck stacked for him already". It isn't okay, regardless of the race/gender of the person.

P.S.

I did contact him to see if this little test was Okay and he said he didn't care but he'd tell anyone I made it all up if I was caught. :P

Suffice to say, I never did it again because I was worried about legal consequences of pretending to be someone else by sending out my resume en masse but drunken curiosity had gotten the better of me one night.