YOU are full of bullshit.
C is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C++ were to do nothing but keep the C programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C++.
In other words: the choice of C++ is the only sane choice. I know Linus Torvalds unironically said "to piss you off" about C, but it's actually true.