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High school age I guess, like 16 maybe, at the latest.
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Depends what you mean by ‘learned’ — my grandparents talked about their time fighting the fascists from the time I was born.
What part of the world are you from?
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Whoops. Thank you!
10 I think. I originally thought it meant bigotry based on fashion choices.
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That reminds me. I thought tourist was another word for terrorist until 13; I finally checked the different definitions cuz I was cast in the Despicable Me school play and got confused about the opening scene where a bunch of tourists discover the Pyramids of Giza were stolen.
I think that’s great for a ten year old. When did you become more aware of fascism?
Probably a couple years later when I started learning more about World War II. I had a decent History Channel phase back when that’s what it was mostly into
When Jeffrey Lebowski got a mug thrown at his head
10ish, but I thought it was pronounced “face-ist”.
12ish or so, when we learned about Mussolini. It wasn’t that substantive, though, since it took quite a lot longer to learn to differentiate between fascism and Nazism.
Mussolini is who first got described to me as fascist as well. 10 years old, 5th grade. Also similarly, it really took my own effort to separate multiple, shall I say, un-American government descriptors because they were all pumped together as evil. Fascism, dictatorship, communism, and a bit of socialism due to the Nazi’s true party name.
Surprisingly, nationalism just never fell into the mix in school. That’s just patriotism for other countries, right? Right?
Middle school, probably 13-14.
15 or 16
I finally had a definition stick when I heard Dan Harmon yell that Trump is a fascist on his old podcast. Back during the first term. In 2017 IIRC.
I’m part of the problem, I guess, considering I was in my early 30s.
The 2016 election was the first time I didn’t “throw now away”. They lost anyway.
Definitely 13 because I remember looking the word up after hearing it in song from a band I discovered that exact year.
Which song?
I mean I have learned the word itself really early, as for what it means that’s quite different.
i like this video on fascism, and has a quite good video essay series about how fascism works nowadays online, at the workplace etc.
11 probably, I spent a lot of time on Wikipedia.
“How old we are you”
Words hard, apparently.
Thanks. I fixed it.
In my native language, the ideology is referred to as fascism, so any English uses of Nazi (except for the actual German NatSoc party) were would have been replaced with “fascist” for me.
I personally think this is better, since it bypasses the claim that accusing someone of Nazism is an ad hominem or whatever
The political ideology is Fascism, unless someone is a neo-nazi calling them nazi is weird, they are fascists.
