I have met a couple of them in real life, and a few I have met online. The sample is not significant enough to draw any conclusions about their point of view and background.
I am more than interested in your opinions about the personality and political makeup of people who express this type of pro-C bigotry.
I haven’t really met those people for about a decade, but before modern languages with superior security but still usable like Rust we only had Java, C, C++, C#, and Assembly for the more advanced, thoughtful, and professional programing workflows.
(At this point in time COBOL and Fortran was already almost exclusively Legacy use).
If you wrote Python or Apache Groovy in an office space where you collaborate with others, you were an oddity. Or maybe you worked at the NSA, because oddly they use a lot of that on their github.
Of course, we now have IDEs that let you work professionally with basically any language, so it’s all moot, now.
There is still some negative sentiment against any and all high-level languages because the more that is automated the less its users understand about programming or computer logic.