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Okay, but that's what the word means now. Socially progressive and liberal are almost synonyms for years now, and the amount of people this has spread to is increasing.
Outside of your own narrow circle, you say you're against liberalism, and people will think you're going to be joining the KKK or something. So you can go on and say that you're anti-liberal, but to an increasingly big amount of people that means you're a bigot.
Something something dictionaries should be descriptive, not prescriptive.
I'll link another comment I just made, which highlights this. There's articles quoting three bigoted Eastern-European politicians (including the one this article is about) talking about how liberals and their gay agenda are ruining the world.
The usage of the word liberal has thus shifted. As the likes of Putin, Orban, Trump, etc, use the word liberal to describe someone they perceive as "woke", "SJW", whatever, basically just non-bigoted people, the people being described as such have largely adopted that label as their own. Largely, the word "liberal" where I live now means you're accepting of other people, and your economic stance usually may be anywhere from center to left - as liberalism now carries the connotation of being a progressive, empathetic person, usually most people who call themselves liberals are pro taxation, social safety nets, etc.
This is why, and I've said this in a few other comments now, I propose that the original word "liberalism" for the most part should be replaced with "neoliberalism", "capitalism", or "marketism" to reduce confusion. Not a single one of those could in any way be confused for progressivism at least.