There is no more a well-defined “Python people” than there is a “Perl people” – both of their user bases span industries and computing architectures, hobbyists and professionals, old bones and young bloods, true believers and weary journeymen – and they overlap significantly, for that matter. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
The Python people started this fight in 2000 and have since said much worse and heaps more, most of it untrue and libellous; turn-around is only fair. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.