You're confusing liberals with leftists.
Libertarians are supposed to be for Liberty (there are people who claim to be these who aren't actually what they say they are). (look to people like Sargon of Akkad, he is against everything the left espouses, yet he is a liberal.) I would consider myself a Liberal, not a leftist. I see everyone as equal, and I disagree with most things the left says. (gun restrictions is something I actually agree with, mainly because my home country of Australia did it and there have been no school shootings since.) Libertarians are supposed to be for individualism, not collectivism (Each person is unique, not that each person has to associate with a group based on skin color or gender). As long as you don't bother me, I won't bother you.
Leftists are for the BS SJW stuff. They are for communism and social engineering (engineering society to be what they want, not what's best for everyone). They are not for the good of humanity. They are not for individualism, and they are not for Freedom.