[erikcw]

My guess is that this is being taken out of context.

I don't want to put words in Rick's mouth, but I imagine that he means that SICP won't help you learn Clojure the language. Not that SICP won't make you a better programmer in Clojure (and all other languages).

Personally I found it helpful to work through the book in scheme (the language used in the book), porting some of the exercises to Clojure and other languages I'm interested in as a supplement.