On the Apr. 24, 2024 episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk interviewed Chloe Happe — a self-described “egirl” who lost her job over a bigoted post on X (formerly Twitter). Kirk praised Happe’s account as “very entertaining” and defended her posts, stating that “no one should be fired from their job” for posts like hers.

Happe is currently suing her former employer — Block, Inc. — with the assistance of X owner Elon Musk. Last year Musk promised to cover the legal bills of anyone who was “unfairly treated” by their employer for “posting or liking something” on X. In one post highlighted by her suit, Happe used an anonymous account to call a colleague a “retarded tranny in a wheelchair.”

Happe claims through her lawsuit that she was wrongfully terminated over her “political views” in violation of Missouri’s anti-discrimination law. But as Techdirt’s Mike Masnick noted, she is “clearly misrepresenting the law in question” which is about “issues ‘related to elections.'” Happe’s post, on the other hand, has nothing to do with elections or political beliefs.

As Masnick wrote, “the government can’t punish you for your speech, but others have every right (their own First Amendment association rights) to want nothing to do with you.” Which is precisely what occurred here. But that didn’t stop Charlie Kirk from attempting to turn her firing into another culture war issue.

Kirk described Happe’s current X account as “very entertaining” and told her that she has his “support” for suing Jack Dorsey — the former Twitter CEO and founder of Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.). When asked to describe what happened, Happe told Kirk she had been fired over “a tweet I made that was pretty politically incorrect” and “in criticism of trans people.”

Neither Happe nor Kirk revealed what the post actually said.

Happe said that when she posted about losing her job, it “went pretty viral” and multiple people asked Elon Musk to assist her. “And thanks to my powerful network of friends online, I was able to get in contact with Elon,” she said. “And the next day, Elon hired me a legal team to then go on to pursue a lawsuit against my ex-employer for firing me for a tweet.”

And, since Happe has often referred to herself as an “egirl,” Kirk asked her to define the term for the “boomers in the audience.”

“It’s a girl having fun online,” Happe said. Just — I like to think that egirls are provocative, controversial, they kind of toe the boundaries of infonorms and breaking taboos. And yeah, I mean, woke capital just doesn’t want a girl having fun online. I think girls should be able to have fun and be silly online. And that’s what being an egirl is all about.”

Addressing his audience directly, Kirk claimed that “pushing the boundaries online is actually how we get great breakthroughs.” He credited Happe and other pseudonymous right-wing Internet figures for breaching “taboo topics” such as funding for Ukraine or “the trans issue.”

Kirk explained that originally anti-trans sentiment was “largely online,” but that states have now passed anti-trans legislation.

Happe also referred to herself as part of the so-called “Dissident Right” — a term embraced by white nationalists like VDARE’s John Derbyshire and Peter Brimelow. When Kirk asked her to define “Dissident Right,” Happe called it a “faction of Twitter that has right-leaning views, but we don’t consider ourselves traditional conservatives.”

After the interview, Kirk praised anonymous far-right figures for introducing extreme ideas that are later picked up by more mainstream right-wing shows. He explained that “there’s this whole world that exists, sometimes on Reddit, sometimes on the hinterlands of Twitter” where ideas that “might seem a little bit extreme” are “formulated.”

“And then they’re workshopped,” he continued. “And then they’re introduced into these tributaries that then all of the sudden get picked up, maybe like a show on ours — on a show like ours. Or Tucker Carlson. Or Jesse Watters.” Kirk referred to this as an “underappreciated dynamic of the right-wing community.”

Kirk also compared these anonymous right-wing “influencers” to the authors of the Federalist Papers, who also used pseudonyms.

“And [anonymity] allows you to be more creative against the threat of cancellation,” Kirk said. “So I love it. So many big Trump boosters, by the way, in 2015 were anonymous. The Trump movement would not’ve been possible without a huge community of online boosters and supporters that could be called in the ‘Dissident Right.’ I believe that.”

He concluded by saying that “no one should be fired from their job for posting what [Chloe Happe] posted.”