You'll find that is very few liberals that will champion all causes blindly.
That's the case with me. I'm the same basic 'classical liberal' that I always was. Not that some of my views have not changed over the 35-ish years that I've been intellectually active, but the core basis for them have remained quite consistent. In my analysis and opinion at least.
Frankly, I don't see it in others very much. Most people I know are afraid from peer pressure and rejection to go against the 'party line.' I was always more prone than most to call a spade a spade and go against my Liberal peers on certain issues even back in the day. What I was less willing to do is to really listen to what the 'other side' had to say. That is where I've really made an improvement, and I think it has really helped me broaden and improve my analytical capabilities.
For example, I have a huge bias against transgendered folk, but I'm aware if it and I try to mitigate it when I discuss said population. I grew up in the South, in a Black family. We don't really play that shit, old school black folks, for the record. I don't really think that's a good thing. I really shouldn't give a good goddamned about someone's sexual preferences, the Lord has given them the free will to live their limited life as they see fit. Just because I do not agree with said life, it doesn't invalidate it. I'm one guy with opinions, that don't matter for shit in the grand scheme of things. It's truly meaningless folks. I feel them same about abortion, I don't agree with it. It's murder, plainly, and I dare anyone to challenge that, I will rip you a new asshole with words. But I do believe people should have the choice to fuck up. Women should have the choice, we should all have the ability to live our lives as we see fit. Given that said life is adaptive, I'm not condoning serial killers running around because 'it feels good, man'.
That, and a little bit of navel-gazing, is all it takes to be absolved of the crime of intolerance (or what the modern SWJ types will often call 'racism' in their characteristically ignorant way.)
One of my main beefs with these types of deviants is that 'we' on the anachro-left fought fairly hard for their rights against the 'religious right' and other reactionaries back in the day. That battle was basically won and a raft of posers seem to have jumped on the band-wagon to take advantage of the elevated and protected status that we classical liberals never intended.
The SJW 'movement' is more a rejection of the seeming 'fuck them' attitude of your party. The primary criticism from leftist of conservatism is that the minority is crushed under the will of the whole,. The secondary critique is that your party cares nothing for the citizen that cannot do for itself. For those of us with empathy for people other than our own social network, usually as a result of having faced a fucked up sitch personally, it pains us to see people, however fucked up and weird they are, being denied the right to do just that. You should be able to be as your are. Not do what you will, that's a different doctrine, a more sinister one that has no place in my life. But, dammit, you get one of these. At least be able to enjoy it. If you have a dick and want to cut it off, fuck it, I don't care. I start to care when fringe behaviors become normalized, but if it improves the public by preserving the outgroup, and if the outgroup is sizeable.enough, I will begrudgingly submit. Homosexuality for example. Currently in the process of being normalized. Is this good? In my opinion no, our biological function is to reproduce, and propagate. It's all about the DNA. That's a different discussion.
But if normalizing homosexuality means gsy people not getting killed for being gay, not being discriminated against in housing, finances (the heart of the gay marriage debate, from a secular standpoint), then I'm all for it. No one should have to suffer for their beliefs, in this country. And when I have kids, I control what they ingest. If that's not an agenda I want in my house, that's that.
My beef with the SJW crowd is that I consider them to be pretty much pure phony astro-turf and a product of a collection of scientifically designed schemes which came out of the science of marketing. Worse still, designed by entities who designed and implanted an end-goal which the designers don't even share. They are the classic 'useful idiots' mentioned by the Bolsheviks of old, and they've been developed using a more well developed set of tools from the same basic toolkit in a lot of cases.
On an individual level, many of the SJW types seem every bit as cruel and with every bit as much of the aggressive ignorance as we Classical Liberals used to ascribe to the Reactionary Right.
What really gets my goat is that while the shift has been quite profound, it was done just carefully and smoothly enough to drag most of my formerly like-minded friends and family down into the cesspool of ignorance and stupidity. At least a few of them are starting to bob to the surface and get some gulps of fresh air.