I don't want to diminish the challenges newcomers have with interacting with people online, but we have to understand that even choosing Lisp is going to be met

I don't want to diminish the challenges newcomers have with interacting with people online, but we have to understand that even choosing Lisp is going to be met with significant derision from people who don't write Lisp since it's not a top-10 language. "Lol just use Python it's the second best at everything," is a common refrain to people who are trying in earnest to learn something new and nonstandard for a change. While I won't claim nobody has been "psyched out" by a community of people for their language-learning choices, I just don't think that this is something that happens with Lisp particularly often. The subreddit r/Lisp is predominantly Common Lisp, but more frequently than not accepts viewpoints from Clojure, Scheme, Racket, and even NewLisp programmers all in the same comment section, without bickering. As I said, if anybody wants to learn a new technology, and that somebody is a social person, finding a supportive community is important. If somebody going to be a novice at a particular language, and broadcast opinions about that language on disparate forums—some opinions which may come across as uninformed—sure, people will likely come out of the woodwork to correct them, suggest allegedly superior technology, etc.