Like they secretly hold mostly right wing views, but they want to hang out with the cool progressives. One of my ex friends blamed Corbyn for everything, even Brexit??? Another now posts anti Muslim stuff on FB regularly. A third is now a full on ecofascist who will just rant about black people like he's my demented grandma.
Yeah I think Shaun has a good point though, they really are presenting as center-left when they're plain conservative, for instance calling themselves feminist and using a lot of like second-wave feminist language to explain their reactionary behavior. Center-left liberalism has a certain currency especially among upper class women, and yeah it's not true center left from the classical definition of left and right being anti and pro capitalist
I recently learned that during the actual second wave there were a lot, not all, but a lot of radfems that openly, loudly embraced trans women and would shout down proto-terfs and chase them out of their spaces. Even the idea that feminist terfdom is part of the second wave is complicated and distorts history.