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"If I were asked to answer the following question: What is slavery? and I should answer in one word, It is murder!, my meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would be required . . ."oxymoron (plural oxymorons or oxymora)
(rhetoric) a figure of speech in which two words with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect.  [quotations ▼]
(general) a contradiction in terms.
Please enlighten us on why the words "social" and "justice" are contradictory.
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your brand of social justice is a spit in the eye of property right's. It is also theft of private property. That is theft. Justice is not supported by theft. Oxymoron.
property is theft.
"Why, then, to this other question: What is property? may I not likewise answer, It is robbery!, without the certainty of being misunderstood; the second proposition being no other than a transformation of the first?
—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property?"
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That connection between slavery and property begs the question could the first private fortunes have come into existence thousands of years ago without the institution of chattel slavery?
Another thinker may have supplied that answer:
"...Rousseau made the same general point when he wrote: 'The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
"'From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this imposter; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."