Apologies in advance if I'm snarky: I'm in a bad mood today.
Anyway, on with the debate. I don't think you can argue that it isn't wrong to have opinions about other cultures, and still hold that there are opinions that you need not be aware of, that are wrong to hold.
In the examples of love and stalking, or domestic violence and loving sado-masochism, for instance, you can actually define categories or orders that separate the two from each other (i.e. love). It's a category error to assume that love and stalking or abuse are relevantly similar. But it's fundamentally unclear that you can draw a distinction between "having and positive/negative attitude/opinion about a culture" and "having a positive/negative attitude/opinion about a culture and being racist" if there is no way of constructing racism other than in a manner that makes extensive reference to the opinions that you hold. And I'm not sure that there is. And I think your comments along the lines of "it's a bit vague" or "it's complicated but" indicate this confusion: it's doesn't seem like there are any good paradigm cases that can be used.
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Anyway, on with the debate. I don't think you can argue that it isn't wrong to have opinions about other cultures, and still hold that there are opinions that you need not be aware of, that are wrong to hold.
In the examples of love and stalking, or domestic violence and loving sado-masochism, for instance, you can actually define categories or orders that separate the two from each other (i.e. love). It's a category error to assume that love and stalking or abuse are relevantly similar. But it's fundamentally unclear that you can draw a distinction between "having and positive/negative attitude/opinion about a culture" and "having a positive/negative attitude/opinion about a culture and being racist" if there is no way of constructing racism other than in a manner that makes extensive reference to the opinions that you hold. And I'm not sure that there is. And I think your comments along the lines of "it's a bit vague" or "it's complicated but" indicate this confusion: it's doesn't seem like there are any good paradigm cases that can be used.