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.
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?
Sometime in school, in history class, when learning about Nazi Germany, and Italy and Spain. Possibly around 13-15.
10 I think. I originally thought it meant bigotry based on fashion choices.
In a better world it would
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.
High school age I guess, like 16 maybe, at the latest.
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I don’t remember how old I was in 4th grade; but 4th grade was when school started covering WW2 in my school days.
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.
15 or 16
Depends what you mean by ‘learned’ — my grandparents talked about their time fighting the fascists from the time I was born.
I don’t know how anyone could answer this honestly, unless they have a photographic memory
Middle school, probably 13-14.
Definitely 13 because I remember looking the word up after hearing it in song from a band I discovered that exact year.
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.
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. In 2017 IIRC.
I’m part of the problem, I guess, considering I was in my early 30s.
