Listened to some absolute garbage on the radio from someone who Wikipedia introduces as a "poet and an intellectual", among which was the intellectual stroke of genius that some people are too obsessed with "rights and justice" and would be much happier if they just learned to be content with their lot. Another gem was that he couldn't understand why people kept calling him out as a "typical cis male" when he had already decided as a 23 year old that he didn't want to embrace that label.
Apparently the term "intellectual" is to actual intelligence what the term "free thinker" is to actual free thought.