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COMMA-LA Shirt Kamala Harris T-Shirt - I’ve mispronounced her first name, too. And it has taken a bit of repetition to get it right (“Comma-la, Comma-la”). But when you don’t make an effort people notice. In an MTV video called “Just Try Saying My Name Right!", Mamoudou N'Diaye, one of the speakers, 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.

N'Diaye’s point is that saying a name correctly isn’t about blue or red state politics but is actually about respect and identity, something I learned firsthand a couple of years ago when Caitlyn Jenner was first coming out as transgender. I had written a column in People magazine urging the adoption of her new name and female pronouns. At a dinner party not long after, the host took off on a rant about Jenner — and me — demanding to know, why was I forcing people to use her new name?

I’m really not that all powerful, but I did stop the conversation when I reminded the host that when she got married, she changed her surname, adopting her husband’s. “And that’s the name all of us now use,” I continued at the table. I didn’t use it simply because it was her legal name but because it showed respect for her new life, and her new identity.

In the workplace, hard-to-pronounce names can lead to other issues, like not getting the job or a promotion.

Ruchika Tulshyan, author of "The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality In The Workplace," wrote in the Harvard Business Review that her name has been “butchered” her entire life, which spurred her to determine whether a non-Western name negatively impacted her career. The answer: Yes. As she wrote: "A hiring manager ... admitted that the hard-to-pronounce name on my résumé was a factor in not receiving a call back for an interview.”

Kamala Harris T-Shirt , A University of Toronto study reported that "résumés of applicants with Asian names had a 28% reduced likelihood of getting called for an interview compared with applicants with an Anglo name" — like Tucker Carlson — even when all qualifications are equivalent.