This paper addresses the risks involved in relying on the act of illocutionary resistance as an active form of resistance to discriminatory uses of language. As we will try to show, the indiscriminate use of this strategy in order to avoid any possible ambiguity or connivance with those using potentially discriminatory language can have consequences which go against the spirit underlying political correctness. In fact, the main risk is that performing such an act will give rise to new kinds of discursive injustice, which are unforeseen and probably undesirable, and as a result of which certain polarizations already present in society regarding sensitive issues (such as those involving political correctness), will be exacerbated rather than reduced.
