Real World’s Julie Accused of ‘Dangerous White Woman S—‘ During Hard Conversations on Race

White privilege and optics have already been subjects of just a few powerful conversations to date this season, after Julie Stoffer stored telling the opposite roommates that Tokyo Broom probably bruised and “manhandled” her whereas she was drunk. As her roommates identified, she had fallen down fairly just a few occasions, ran right into a tree and vomited in all places — whereas he was only attempting to assist her. While he did bodily take away her from the dance ground at one level, he did so with good intentions and each Tokyo and Melissa Beck took issue with the narrative Julie appeared to be perpetuating by focusing on her accidents.

The new episode picked up with Beck and Tokyo attempting to clarify why Stoffer’s account was problematic, throughout a home assembly Broom had known as.

“I do know that your intentions are good. In no approach am I like, ‘This Black man got here and harm me.’ Let me simply squash that, if that is the priority,” Julie mentioned, whereas Tokyo informed her she was nonetheless making a “harmful” narrative along with her feedback.

“Here’s the half that we’re not speaking about … you’re right here making a tv present and I do not need to be on your present, as a result of I do not get to resolve who I get to be, as a result of it will get to be your narrative,” Melissa then mentioned, referring to a dialog she and Kelly Wolf overheard during which Julie informed her husband she was purposefully attempting to make “good TV” as a result of the remainder of them have been, basically, boring.

“You try to make a TV present, I heard what you mentioned,” Melissa continued, saying Julie was “creating manufactured drama” as an alternative of having actual conversations along with her roommates. “Stop attempting to make a TV present!”

Julie, nonetheless, would not actually cop to doing something of the type and started asking them, “You assume I’m pretend, you assume I need to be a star?” She added, “I do not need to be the f—ing star of the present. You guys, please, choose up the mantle, do one thing so this present is attention-grabbing so I haven’t got to be the middle of consideration.”

As Tokyo tried to get the dialog again on monitor, hoping to clarify why her feedback created dangerous optics, Danny Roberts briefly took Julie’s aspect — saying they have been pressured to depart the bar by Tokyo and it wasn’t actually a dialog. He additionally mentioned how the whole lot was dealt with was “a bit violent,” earlier than acknowledging he did not understand Julie was as drunk as she was till later.

“Showing bruises and implying that he was the one that gave them to you is violence,” mentioned Melissa.

But Julie wasn’t listening to it and implied that Melissa was only leaping in on this as a result of she needed a cause to go after Stoffer for his or her previous drama, which can be unresolved. “You’re simply on the lookout for one thing that I f— up on so you possibly can make me into the villain,” she mentioned, earlier than calling Melissa “calculating.”

“I’ve not been ready for this second. I’m not making you a villain. I’m not making or doing something,” Melissa shot again. “He does not need to be your roommate since you’re harmful. You’re doing harmful white girl s—.”

Julie then started to get emotional as she talked about being “horribly embarrassed” by her actions the evening in query and expressed concern about what her youngsters would assume after they noticed it. With that, Melissa was carried out.

“Now we’re moving into the tears. I’m not doing none of that,” she mentioned, strolling out. She was later seen speaking to Kelley in her bed room, saying Julie was the “calculating” one in the home. “I’m not getting concerned on this masterful degree of gaslighting, the place she will be able to masterfully flip it again around and make everybody really feel for her. Not doing that. I did not come right here for that,” she mentioned.

“I am unable to be in an area the place she’s making a narrative around an precise Black person who exists, who’s going to have to return out into the world with it being mentioned that when he was within the service of serving to her, he as an alternative harm her,” she added. “That’s actually gross.”

She additionally expressed the Catch-22 she discovered herself in, saying she needed to arise for Tokyo, however on the identical time did not need to be labeled an “Angry Black girl” for merely calling out one thing that wanted to be known as out.

After that dialog, Julie was contemplating leaving and started calling each Kelley and Melissa “Mean Girls” in her confessional. “They’ve been ready for this,” she mentioned, “F— these girls. I’m not doing the Mean Girls factor.”

The racial conversations stored going as they have been all known as to the sofa to watch some flashback movies from the unique season that confirmed the group on a swamp boat tour. At the time, their tour information dropped the n-word in entrance of the forged whereas referring to a chicken as a “[N-word] stork” — whereas Melissa’s white costars, particularly Jamie Murray, did not understand or respect her outrage. They adopted that up by taking one other boat journey, which fortunately didn’t embody one other racist information however did finish with Jamie apologizing for his previous conduct. “I used to be insensitive … that was f—ed up,” he admitted.

Back on the home, one more video montage lured them again to what Julie known as the “sofa of doom.” This one centered on Melissa having to be, as she known as herself, the “home educator on all issues race” — and included footage of her instructing Julie why she wasn’t allowed to say issues like “coloured” and the n-word.

“So, have y’all gotten your s— collectively?” Beck quipped after the spotlight reel performed. She then defined that she felt the present made some “missteps” again within the day when it got here to race conversations, which appeared to be informed by way of a white lens and possibly weren’t framed accurately. She (rightly!) felt she should not have acquired hate mail on the time for mentioning racism and believed “all of us ought to have been obsessive about race,” not simply her and Tokyo.

As Julie mentioned that, on the time, she did not assume she had even “met a Black particular person at that time in my life” earlier than coming on the present, some crosstalk between her, Julie and David started — earlier than Stoffer blurted out, “It’s not straightforward when the academics are screaming at me. This is not a really snug setting”

“The academics are screaming? It should not be snug,” Melissa responded. “We’re speaking about racism. The very first thing you need to do will not be bounce to, ‘I used to be being screamed at,’ as an alternative of, ‘I used to be concerned in a really exhausting dialog around race that did not go nicely.'”

At that time, Julie felt that, as soon as once more, her previous points with Melissa have been making this dialog go off the rails — however spoke about how she had (hopefully) modified within the 20+ years since they filmed the unique season.

“I believe the Mormon Church could be very racist, I do and that is the setting I used to be raised in. There have been all types of issues I used to be introduced up considering and believing, horrible stereotypes,” she mentioned, “and I’ve spent a long time, if not a lifetime, attempting to make sense of it and deconstruct it and construct myself up as, I hope, that I’m anti-racist.”

She then lastly acknowledged what David and Melissa have been attempting so exhausting to get her to understand.

“I’ve this egocentric evening and that finally ends up being a risk to you and that is not even within the realm of my consciousness as a result of I’m residing my little privileged life,” she mentioned. “That’s the place I’ll simply apologize and forgive me my trespasses whereas I’m right here, as a result of I’m gonna mess up extra. Try and let me do higher, I simply need to be higher.”

David mentioned in a confessional he believed she was being real, whereas Melissa later acknowledged that her “tone was stank” with Julie throughout that second dialog. She approached Stoffer shortly after and apologized. “You bought beat up right now and I used to be half of that. To you, I say, that wasn’t good,” mentioned Beck, “now we will proceed our bizarre dance of tip-toeing around one another till we get it collectively.”

The episode ended with a go to from Melissa’s wonderful dad and mom, Shorty and Mercy Howard, who had truly visited their mansion again within the day however have been sadly edited out of the present fully on the time. Mercy cooked an unimaginable unfold of meals, Shorty cracked jokes and the dinner appeared to convey everybody collectively, ending the powerful hour on a optimistic notice.

We’ll see if they’ll stick with it when new episodes of “Real World Homecoming: New Orleans” drop Wednesdays on Paramount+