most incoming links cannot hurt you even if they are coming from unrelated websites, IMO. only links coming from bad neighborhoods and link farms can hurt you and those also only in very serious cases because otherwise, your competition could get link to your website from these link farms and get you banned. And if that starts happening then the web will break down.
people take this relevancy stuff much more seriously, you should think big here.
for example, to quote and example brad fallon had given in one of his lectures
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what do wedding and travel have in common, not much right. But what do people do after they get married, they go on their honey moon; right, so on first look they two categories are not relevant, but on close inspection there is a hidden link.
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secondly, think in terms of the 16 Dmoz categories and then go about on your link building.
Considering all things remaining the same
"links from highly relevant websites give you more link love."
"links from authority website give you more link love plus authority.
"links from unrelated websites give you very little advantage.€"
"links from bad neighborhoods gives you no advantage whatsoever 0 + 0 = 0
"links from websites which were authority, but had their authority taken away because of selling links do not help you now."
"One way links help you more than reciprocal links"
The main problem is not who is linking to you, but who you are linking out to, that is what matters the most, so inspect websites closely who you consider linking out to because that can damage your rankings.