rhetorical dissonance

when someone doesn’t take the default politically correct rhetorical position of their own stance in discussing a political issue. it leads to a false perception of cognitive dissonance by their audience, when in fact the person is abandoning rhetoric and examining the issue without rhetorical bias. it leads to an ally of a cause to be seen as the enemy for not falling in line with automatically -ssumed rhetorical positions.
when bob argued the following, “i am a full supporter of gender equality. however, the sc-m manifesto doesn’t help the feminist cause. many feminists become just as bad as chauvinists, when their responses to s-xism become just as polemic,” he was seen as criticizing feminism, creating rhetorical dissonance. another example is the following: “gay rights are very important, and they should be equal. that being said, the apa has established that orientation changes over a lifetime. the reality is that some people can and do choose to be gay, not that there’s anything wrong with that.”