What the Covington Story Tells Us About Fractivists

The Covington story is one of fake news, journalistic malpractice and incredible hate on the part of exploiters. It also reveals the tactics of fractivism.

The Covington story has captured public imagination. It exposes everything many of us have long observed; that much of the news is manufactured to advance causes in which activists and empathetic journalists join forces. The entire premise of the original story has turned out to be dreadfully wrong in every respect. Nathan Phillips wasn’t harassed. The Covington students did none of the things he said. They were, in fact, using school cheers to drown out the voices of vicious racists attacking both him and them. But, Phillips chose to exploit the students because he knew how a pathetically the media would respond. He knew how to play his cards.

Yes, Nathan Phillips really knows how to play his cards, in fact. His real name is Nathan Stanard. He is Native American and was a Marine during the early 1970s. He served stateside as an electrician and refrigerator guy, went AWOL multiple times and left the service the same way he went in, as a private. But, he could and did claim he served in “Vietnam War times.”

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