It's not about offense, it's about a culture that apparently believes that name-calling and language-bashing are traits of a "nice" and "personable" community.
Does 'Rube' have a negative connotation attached to it?
Do you have any numbers to back any of this up?
Could it just be that you aren't a Python programmer
your language
you're by far the flamiest person here.
Python community leaders are not into bashing other languages routinely
the party line seems to be "this is the way we do
things, if you like what you see, come on in, if not,
no worries"