He is not bashing Java per SE but a special kind of Java: Enterprise Java and IMO that deserves a bashing on general principle. Enterprise Java just never seems appropriate.
So as to remain on topic: I agree with you but the other side of the coin is that Java the language can't seem to live down Java EE and its culture. It's trying, though. I give particular kudos to the Clojure and Scala communities for helping to rebrand the JVM as something awesome independent of Java. That helped me, at least, to realize that I shouldn't conflate the two in my head.
The only stumbling block I have to get around in my head now when I think JVM is "JVM == long startup times", which is still kinda true but nowhere near as bad as it was.
[Edit] And this is the highest voted comment on a thread about how cool GTA V is to include programming references and how deep their open world is.
Enterprise Clipper
Enterprise C
Enterprise C++
Enterprise Perl
Enterprise TCL
Enterprise insert language here
You just need to let the enterprise architects loose...