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How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"?
Submitted 1 day ago by Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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morphballganon@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Jomega@lemmy.world 1 day ago
10ish, but I thought it was pronounced “face-ist”.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 day ago
High school age I guess, like 16 maybe, at the latest.
HubertManne@piefed.social 18 hours ago
Not sure but its never had as much meaning as it does now for me.
q1p_@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Maybe 12 or 13
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 1 day ago
10 I think. I originally thought it meant bigotry based on fashion choices.
loldog191@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
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.
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In a better world it would
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think that’s great for a teen year old.
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
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
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
11 probably, I spent a lot of time on Wikipedia.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Depends what you mean by ‘learned’ — my grandparents talked about their time fighting the fascists from the time I was born.
M137@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“How old we are you”
Words hard, apparently.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thanks. I fixed it.
tyler@programming.dev 1 day ago
I don’t know how anyone could answer this honestly, unless they have a photographic memory
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How about a general timeframe? Was there a specific event that brought fascism into your consciousness?
tyler@programming.dev 22 hours ago
The thing is, I was a voracious reader since I was a kid. I started reading early and never stopped. My school had competitions to get kids to read and I always won by a landslide, so I honestly probably heard or read the term then, but couldn’t tell you when. Could have been five, could have been fifteen years old.
About the only specific thing I remember about anything with a name when I was a kid was that the first book I ever failed to finish was Anna Karenina, when I tried to read it in fifth grade since it was worth the most points in the reading competition.
Other than that, it’s amazing to me that people really remember anything specific about their childhood, because it’s all a blur and blank to me.
Rudee@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
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
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The political ideology is Fascism, unless someone is a neo-nazi calling them nazi is weird, they are fascists.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Back when the history channel had history documentaries. There was a week long block of WWII shows when I was 12(ish), like shark week but Hitler.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
The Rocketeer, when Jenny found Neville Sinclair’s secret radio room.
LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Definitely 13 because I remember looking the word up after hearing it in song from a band I discovered that exact year.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Which song?
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Middle school, probably 13-14.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
I’m part of the problem, I guess.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The 2016 election was the first time I didn’t “throw now away”. They lost anyway.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
I don’t remember how old I was in 4th grade; but 4th grade was when school started covering WW2 in my school days.
RBWells@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I don’t remember but do remember my dad calling me an anarchist when I was very, very young. Like maybe 4 or 5.
turdas@suppo.fi 1 day ago
Maybe like 13. However it wasn’t until my twenties until I learnt what it actually means, and I’m convinced most of the general populace never learn that.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What convinces you that folks don’t understand the meaning?
turdas@suppo.fi 1 day ago
The fact that there’s textbook fascists in the US government and many people I know seem to still be in denial. Mostly non-US people, in case that changes the equation.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
15 or 16
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
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.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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?
Clathrate_Gun@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
History class in the 7th grade, so I was about 13 years d. That was when I learned what it meant, but I’d heard the word a lot before then.