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Any sufficiently advanced aliens will have first-order logic, Bayes's Rule, expected utility, and a zoo of coherence theorems proving their uniqueness. To say that logic, rationality, or empiricism are "white culture" is as racist as saying that only whites can count.
And they use a test tube to illustrate that racist claim? Are they under the impression that whites pioneered prechemistry/alchemy? I have studied very little such history, but even I know that is false.
You cannot at the same time make a big deal out of assigning due credit for every historical culture's contributions to mathematics and science, and say that those achievements are "whiteness". You have to choose one path or the other. And it is very clear which road to choose.
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