Liberals often think they are the ones who always pursue and live out true egalitarianism and shun elitism, while conservatives do not. The latter part is true: a conservative cannot be egalitarian, whether with gender or class or to some extent race (what conserving traditions or moving away from the status quo respectively entail depends on cultural context, but I have American conservatives and liberals in mind), without contradicting or at least selectively affirming conservatism. One liberal could be different from another, even if one or both only partially hold to their own philosophies consistently, yet they can be very elitist when it comes to ideology, which would be valid only if they were in the right (spoiler alert: they often are not!) while denouncing elitism, cling to the racism or sexism they supposedly reject, and regard the "educated" as the superior or the more rational, all utter errors.
They might assume malicious motives, arrogance, and false worldviews are held to by white people because they think that if one of them is an oppressor to those of other races, then so too are the others, which is just another form of racial stereotyping, which is always irrational and racist. They are by no means all gender egalitarian as opposed to sometimes misandrist and selectively misogynistic. After all, not every self-proclaimed liberal rejects all gender stereotypes to their own stupidity and hypocrisy, and much less for truly rational reasons as opposed to because they are caught up in the emotional zeitgeist of their current society. It is quite common for liberals to denounce gender stereotypes only for women or in an incomplete way. Even then, it is more likely to be because they feel confined by them or subjectively dislike them or on some bullshit "social study" basis rather than due to the inherent non sequitur nature of psychological traits/competencies and genitalia in all cases.
Moreover, a liberal is far more likely to be elitist than a conservative when it comes to education (though there is no such thing as a rational liberal or conservative anyway, only one that is less irrational than another) from primary school all the way to a postsecondary context. Confusing education, and especially the social construct of formal education with its neglect of logical necessities and expected submission to pure epistemological hearsay, with intelligence and correctness—which are respectively grasping and aligning with the objective, self-necessary laws of logic and not anything else—is a part of this. Only an insect would ever think one is the other, yet liberals clamor for education and appeals to authority and hearsay rather than to actual reason.
Adding to the irrationality and hypocrisy is that financial barriers can prevent access to education [1] and yet liberals allegedly champion the poor. At the same time, they might look down on someone who is "uneducated" due to involuntary circumstances like poverty, as if this makes them irrational and as if reason is not accessible for every person willing to start with the self-evidence of logical axioms and make no assumptions [2]. Besides, someone can never be in the wrong because of an uncontrollable thing, and a great deal of poverty can be entirely incapable of being willed away or overcome by personal actions alone without luck or external aid. The mythical rationality and innate moral goodness of education are their foundations for still other errors, like assuming that some public figure or academic is correct when they only cling to assumptions or contradictions.
Oh yes, many liberals are quite elitist even as they might supposedly believe or claim that all stereotypes and elitism are false and evil. It is even more ironic since the superiority of rationalists over non-rationalists and of the morally upright over the morally inferior [3], if such a thing as moral obligation does in fact exist (without which there can be nothing good about education, just subjectively interesting or pragmatically beneficial), is an objective fact. This is where supremacy and elitism are valid. Plenty who identify as liberals are in many cases absolutely, hypocritically elitist according to their own proposed philosophies—they simply pretend otherwise and contradict other things they claim are true.
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