I think Java was the main one. C/C++ are (relatively) close to the metal, system-level languages with explicit memory management - and were tacitly accepted to be the "complicated" ones, with dynamic typing not really applicable at that level.

But Java was the high-level, GCed, application development language - and more importantly, it was the one dominating many university CS studies as an education language before python took that role. (Yeah, I'm grossly oversimplifying - sincere apologies to the functional crowd! :) )

The height of the "static typing sucks!" craze was more like a "The Java type system sucks!" craze...