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.
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High school age I guess, like 16 maybe, at the latest.
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When Jeffrey Lebowski got a mug thrown at his head
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.
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.
10 I think. I originally thought it meant bigotry based on fashion choices.
In a better world it would
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
10ish, but I thought it was pronounced “face-ist”.
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?
birthday party, of course
Whoops. Thank you!
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.
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.
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.
I don’t know how anyone could answer this honestly, unless they have a photographic memory
How about a general timeframe? Was there a specific event that brought fascism into your consciousness?
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.
Much of my childhood is a blur with occasional fits of extraordinary clarity.
lol great description! I agree completely
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.
Not sure but its never had as much meaning as it does now for me.
“How old we are you”
Words hard, apparently.
Thanks. I fixed it.
