A trope title of Half-Breed indicates that "Half Breed" is an acceptable, if not promoted name for someone.
A trope title Half-Breed Discrimination, which is specifically about, you know, people being awful and racist, is entirely different context.
I'm fine with it.
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Any of the alternate titles at the bottom of the page is better than "half-breed discrimination." "Tragic mulatto" at least has a history to recommend it. A new term that includes a slur is not milder than the old one. The term in the title encourages tropers to use the term uncritically when adding new tropes about "half-breeds." This is as distracting as a slur against Jewish, black or Romani people would be in the title of a trope about discrimination against them. We don't call it "Magical Gypsy," even though "Magical Negro" was coined with a layer of irony via the archaic racist term.
"Tragic mulatto" has that layer of irony. "Half-breed Discrimination" doesn't. If TV Tropes is not wiling to say "mulatto" in the title, "half-breed" isn't an improvement. If they ARE willing to say it, then use that.
Can this trope be as simple as people commenting more on the mixed character's heritage than on others'?
Correct me if I'm wrong, and I could totally be since I never read the books nor watched the movies, but based on the reviews I've heard, the Volturi wanting to kill Renesmee had nothing to do with Half-Breed Discrimination and more to do with the head Volturi's desire to get Alice to work for him.
Remember how the trope title Half-Breed was rejected because it was offensive? Why not call this trope mixed-ancestry discrimination instead? I guess that would be a mouthful.
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