[P.O.E.]

In answer to the article's question: They do it because they can.

We can almost all agree on the psychological damage of naming your kid "Adolf Hitler", but no-one seems to want to discuss the same in regards to the made-up names and pronunciations that proliferate nowadays.

[reg45]

Imagine the embarassment in twenty years for all those children named “Barack”.

[Senator_Blutarski]

“La-sha”, the dash don’t be silent.

[bravo whiskey]

and there is a vein in the black community that claims there is name discrimination because people hear a black sounding name in a phone interview and make assumptions.