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

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

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

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.

When Jeffrey Lebowski got a mug thrown at his head

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.

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.

https://youtu.be/5Luu1Beb8ng

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

Middle school, probably 13-14.

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

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

15 or 16

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

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.

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

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

10 years old. When I saw The Rocketeer, when Jenny found Neville Sinclair's secret radio room to talk to his Nazi handlers.

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.

I don't remember how old I was in 4th grade; but 4th grade was when school started covering WW2 in my school days.

"How old we are you"

Words hard, apparently.

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.

I don't remember but do remember my dad calling me an anarchist when I was very, very young. Like maybe 4 or 5.