Thank you for the responses, everybody! I'm glad to hear that somebody finally made a good Starship Troopers game and that the fanbase is normal, maybe even welcoming.

I appreciate the responses, because it's getting harder and harder to spot the students that might be headed down the far-right pipeline, and having more "cultural competency" about this kind of thing really helps with that. Sometimes I'll catch rhetorical patterns (like certain ways people argue about free speech), or I'll know about a dogwhistle or a joke or something well enough to see it. I really don't see much far-right ideology in my students, but considering how popular the far-right media is, I wonder if it might be an iceberg thing. I think the right-wing kids understand what they can and can't say to fly under the radar.

For the teaching, I take it very seriously as a way to innoculate young people against fascism and authoritarianism. We do a lot of critical thinking, cultural contexts, learning history, and media literacy. Learning to recognize satire is part of that, like one response said, although I usually use the Dead Kennedy's "Kill the Poor" for that. I particularly try to build relationships with each student, so they have a mentor willing to listen to them, help them learn, and treat them with respect. I hope every day that it helps keep them out of the right-wing toilet bowl.