So you'd say that more Lisp-users tend to be self-taught / come to the language themselves, rather than using $current_job_security_language?

This isn't specifically about Lisp vs. Java, though - I don't see people have this sort of kneejerk reaction about Python, for example. (Though Python seems to have been carefully designed to give a first impression of being clean and easy to use. I'd say it mostly is, but it definitely gives a good first impression.)