do you think we as a society can finally acknowledge that “this thing didn’t have a name until recently” doesn’t necessarily mean “this thing did not exist until recently” or (worse) “this thing doesn’t exist at all”
Let’s also agree that “this thing did not have an English name until recently,” does not necessarily mean it was nameless.
And while we’re at it how about we add “You don’t get to systematically destroy the evidence for this thing and then claim that because there’s no evidence, the thing doesn’t exist and has never existed.”