I don’t remember hearing anything like that, but I consider myself a liberal-
I follow classic liberal tenets: property rights, legal protection of minority rights, freedom of religion and speech. This is what we are trying to conserve.
So called liberals are totalitarians who become violently indignant when you point that out to them. For that reason I find the designation “leftists” satisfactory, but we must never call them”liberal”. Words should mean something.
Yes,you are right, and now that I consider my aversion to being called a cis-woman, I will give up calling those like you classical liberals! Thank you for bringing this up :)