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Vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris pronounces her name “comma-la,” COMMA-LA Face Mask but many of her fellow Americans — including Fox News host Tucker Carlson — mispronounce it as “kuh-MAH-luh” or “kuh-MALL-uh.”

When called out about this on his TV show, Carlson snubbed defensively: “So I’m disrespecting her by mispronouncing her name unintentionally? … kuh-MAH-luh Harris or KAM-uh-luh Harris or whatever.”

In this instance, Carlson personifies “Whatever People,” one of several types of name bunglers that are called out in an MTV video.

“If you do this, you are a bad person,” says Maritza Montañez, who describes the daily distortions of her own name as “just exhausting.” Mamoudou N'Diaye, another performer in the video, explains: “People mispronounce my name seven days a week.… If you don’t say my name correctly, it’s basically like saying, I don’t care about you as a person.”

Kamala Harris T-Shirt In his 2010 book Microaggressions in Everyday Life, psychologist Derald Wing Sue argues that superficially trivial incidents like “the boss forgetting or mispronouncing your name” accumulate, and as such, they are “equally disruptive and harmful” as “large, overt racial or gender gaffes and overt obvious acts of discrimination.”

Speaking of disrespect, the Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson got hot under the collar last week when Richard Goodstein, a Democratic strategist, corrected his mispronunciation of Sen. Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee. Goodstein explained to Carlson that Harris’ name “is pronounced ‘comma' — like the punctuation mark — 'la.' Comma-la.” He added, “Out of respect, for somebody who’s going to be on the national ticket, pronouncing her name right is actually kind of a bare minimum.

COMMA-LA Shirt Kamala Harris T-Shirt , whose name is easy to pronounce because it’s both familiar and Anglo-Saxon, didn’t take it in stride and respond with, “Thanks for letting me know that.” Instead, he volleyed back, “So what?” and then lashed out saying, “So I’m disrespecting her by mispronouncing her name unintentionally