So maybe this wasn't clear because of the shortness of the video clip itself, but if there was a part where Ms. Elliott "broke character," near the end of that session, when interacting with that group of college students, they didn't appear to show it. It's very telling how one of the Latino students had to interject and add, "...and the Latinos" (when Ms. Elliott demanded that the White girl apologize to all of the Black students in the room) -- and then Ms. Elliott noticeably corrected herself: "...yes, and the Latinos." Perhaps viewing the session in its entirety would give me better context for what she was trying to do?

You are certainly right that LGBT+ people are shamed into a heteronormative narrative/system/culture. But I don't view it to be an effective solution if we "do to 'the straights' what 'they' have done to us." As a gay person, I think the best way to transcend heteronormativity is to push back against people's ignorance with logic and constructive dialogue. I wish I ("we") didn't have to do it, but I'll do it until the day I die (with, the way things have been going, I wonder if that will be sooner rather than later).

I did watch the segments from Oprah (it just took me longer, since I needed to devote half an hour to listen to everything that was being said by everyone), and I commented on that separately, within this same thread here in my Comments Section. But, to address the point you raised here:

"Point being, the blue-eyed white audience members were so offended and appalled at the way they were being treated for just a couple hours, but they did not understand that is how POC are treated on a regular basis. They did not understand, that is, until they experienced the degradation themselves and realized it was part of an exercise."

Yes, I agree with your assessment, here. I think the goal of the exercise was facilitated by the way the exercise was structured, on paper -- but Ms. Elliott clearly couldn't hold back her own self-righteousness as a white savior for even half an hour to stay in character -- to separate the role-playing from her post-exercise commentary. The exercise itself was a good design, on its face; but Ms. Elliott got too caught up in her own dogma for it to have the desired teachable effect that she was presumably aiming for.