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