One of the most offensive racist events that happened this week at the University of Missouri involved a swastika created by smearing feces on a bathroom wall.

Or did it?

Sean Davis at The Federalist is asking that question, as there seems to be a real dearth of evidence.

The poopstika — or scheissestika, for those of us with German background, which makes us all racists, anyway — was reported at 2:00 a.m. on October 24, according to Billy Donley, President of Mizzou’s Residence Halls Association (RHA). However, Donley later said he found out about it from a flyer posted on the dorm’s wall. Obviously Donley himself didn’t see it. Other RHA staffers told The Federalist that they hadn’t seen either. No photographic evidence exists. That didn’t stop Donley from issuing a sternly word letter:

https://twitter.com/RHAMizzou/status/659911318309212161/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The University of Missouri Police Department was called and investigated the complaint, but according to the public information officer, he didn’t see it either. When The Federalist questioned the officer if any other police personnel saw the offending image, he foisted off the inquiry to the custodian of public records.

There is a photo of a poopstika made on a school bathroom wall, but a Google search shows that it was generated nearly a year ago, as seen in this screenshot:

If this alleged incident sounds like a load of crap to you, remember that this is not the first time race or sexual discrimination hoaxes have been perpetrated at colleges. In 2013 Oberlin College was shut down due to an outbreak of Nazi images and racial slurs, until two white males were found to have perpetrated the hoax. They turned out to be Obama campaign volunteers who were committed to ending “structural racism,” even where it didn’t exist. In 2012 at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside a black girl reported finding a noose of rubber bands, and later said she found her name on a racial ‘hit list.’ Once again, it was a hoax; she had a friend construct the noose and later she created the list.

Those are just a few examples.

There are no definite conclusions to the Mizzou story, but I am fully expecting the poopstika to be yet another hoax. In a logical world, a story that stinks this bad would be fully investigated before being purported as truth. But then again, these are college grievance mongers we’re dealing with, and with them there is no logic. Only a narrative to be defended, even if it’s based on a lie. What a shame that a university president and chancellor have lost their jobs over this.