If that is your entire experience with the programming community you, my friend, landed on the wrong side of town for some reason. I have never had even a small sliver of that experience, and I've worked with hundreds of people.
This is not about not being polite. This is about PUBLICLY deriding people. That's bad manners, to say the least.
This is not about not being polite. This is about PUBLICLY deriding people. That's bad manners, to say the least.