Python v. Scheme

I'm taking prog I in the fall, it's Python-based. Would I be well-served to start SICP and learn Scheme in the meantime? Also what's with the anti-lisp-itry, I haven't been on /prog/ in a couple weeks and when I left no one was declaring lisp a cancer.

i yearn for the day python drops closures

this functional shit needs to get out of my language

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I think it should also get rid of GC. Fucking faggot Lisp shit.