Depends what you mean by ‘learned’ — my grandparents talked about their time fighting the fascists from the time I was born.
How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
10 I think. I originally thought it meant bigotry based on fashion choices.
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In a better world it would
loldog191@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think that’s great for a teen year old.
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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
tyler@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I don’t know how anyone could answer this honestly, unless they have a photographic memory
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How about a general timeframe? Was there a specific event that brought fascism into your consciousness?
tyler@programming.dev 3 weeks 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.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When Jeffrey Lebowski got a mug thrown at his head
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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.
Jomega@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
10ish, but I thought it was pronounced “face-ist”.
M137@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“How old we are you”
Words hard, apparently.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thanks. I fixed it.
Rudee@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
The political ideology is Fascism, unless someone is a neo-nazi calling them nazi is weird, they are fascists.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
The 2016 election was the first time I didn’t “throw now away”. They lost anyway.
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Middle school, probably 13-14.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Which song?
turdas@suppo.fi 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
What convinces you that folks don’t understand the meaning?
turdas@suppo.fi 3 weeks 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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks 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.
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Not sure but its never had as much meaning as it does now for me.
q1p_@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Maybe 12 or 13
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
11 probably, I spent a lot of time on Wikipedia.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
15 or 16
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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?
Harkronis@kbin.melroy.org 2 weeks ago
My father really, really loved watching any WWII-related stuff. I had to had overheard that word a few times when I was like single digits.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Learned is hard to quantify. I probably heard it around 6 but it wasn’t something in my mind that you could be, just something that others were. It wasn’t until later that I recognized it as an ideal.
Clathrate_Gun@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The Rocketeer, when Jenny found Neville Sinclair’s secret radio room.
VinesNFluff@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Depends
First see it? I must have been eeeeh six. Saw the word in Civilization: Call to Power
COMPREHEND it? 12 years old at history class.
RBWells@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
High school age I guess, like 16 maybe, at the latest.