15 or 16
High school age I guess, like 16 maybe, at the latest.
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10ish, but I thought it was pronounced “face-ist”.
When Jeffrey Lebowski got a mug thrown at his head
10 I think. I originally thought it meant bigotry based on fashion choices.
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
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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.
I don’t remember how old I was in 4th grade; but 4th grade was when school started covering WW2 in my school days.
Maybe 12 or 13
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?
“How old we are you”
Words hard, apparently.
Thanks. I fixed it.
I don’t remember but do remember my dad calling me an anarchist when I was very, very young. Like maybe 4 or 5.
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.
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.
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.
