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How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"?

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Submitted ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not sure but its never had as much meaning as it does now for me.

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  • morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When Jeffrey Lebowski got a mug thrown at his head

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  • q1p_@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe 12 or 13

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  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    11 probably, I spent a lot of time on Wikipedia.

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  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Rocketeer, when Jenny found Neville Sinclair’s secret radio room.

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  • Jomega@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    10ish, but I thought it was pronounced “face-ist”.

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  • popcornpizza@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sometime in school, in history class, when learning about Nazi Germany, and Italy and Spain. Possibly around 13-15.

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  • M137@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “How old we are you”

    Words hard, apparently.

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks. I fixed it.

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

    youtu.be/5Luu1Beb8ng

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  • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    High school age I guess, like 16 maybe, at the latest.

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  • Rudee@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The political ideology is Fascism, unless someone is a neo-nazi calling them nazi is weird, they are fascists.

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Depends what you mean by ‘learned’ — my grandparents talked about their time fighting the fascists from the time I was born.

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What party of the world are you from?

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      • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        birthday party, of course

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  • theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    10 I think. I originally thought it meant bigotry based on fashion choices.

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    • kelpie_returns@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In a better world it would

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think that’s great for a teen year old.

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      • theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t know how anyone could answer this honestly, unless they have a photographic memory

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How about a general timeframe? Was there a specific event that brought fascism into your consciousness?

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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • hydrashok@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Middle school, probably 13-14.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Definitely 13 because I remember looking the word up after hearing it in song from a band I discovered that exact year.

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Which song?

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The 2016 election was the first time I didn’t “throw now away”. They lost anyway.

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  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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  • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What convinces you that folks don’t understand the meaning?

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      • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    15 or 16

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