Taleb doesn't claim that black swans are strange; kind of the opposite, in fact. His claims is that its stupid to pretend that black swans don't exist simply b

Taleb doesn't claim that black swans are strange; kind of the opposite, in fact. His claims is that its stupid to pretend that black swans don't exist simply because they haven't been seen before. I don't see what the gimmick is in this line of thought, can you explain a bit more?