While I completely agree that what I said would be a red-flag in the wrong context, this was more a case of - I believe Clojure is a better tool for the job and

While I completely agree that what I said would be a red-flag in the wrong context, this was more a case of - I believe Clojure is a better tool for the job and I don't want to join the team if we're going to be stuck with Java. My statement wasn't about wanting to do future development with a specific language, it was about wanting to use the best tool for the job. We actually use Clojure, Java, Bash, Ruby, web (HTML+JS+CSS), and C#...