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.
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.
When Jeffrey Lebowski got a mug thrown at his head
Maybe 12 or 13
10ish, but I thought it was pronounced “face-ist”.
Not sure but its never had as much meaning as it does now for me.
I don’t remember but do remember my dad calling me an anarchist when I was very, very young. Like maybe 4 or 5.
10 years old. When I saw The Rocketeer, when Jenny found Neville Sinclair’s secret radio room to talk to his Nazi handlers.
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.
In a better world it would
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
“How old we are you”
Words hard, apparently.
Thanks. I fixed it.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Definitely 13 because I remember looking the word up after hearing it in song from a band I discovered that exact year.
Which song?
