they always use those pseudo-intellectual excuses to try to disguise abject bigotry.

This is the intellectual ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding speech protections. There’s nothing ‘pseudo’ about it.

Your inability to distinguish between people who stand up for the freedom of speech and people who use that right to spew hate is pitiable.

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Is the timeless embodiment of this ideal by Voltaire. It applies not just to law, but to civil society.

Reducing these timeless ideals to:

They literally fool no one except edgelord teens grasping for a rebellious identity.

Is the immature rationalization of the closed-minded. I hope you grow out of it.