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In A New Hope towards the end of the scene at Docking Bay 94, Han Solo tells Jabba the Hutt that he is a 'fine human being' after concluding negotiations with him over his debt. In the original deleted scene Jabba was indeed a human being, but when the slug-like Jabba is inserted into the scene the comment becomes deadpan irony and a backhanded compliment. It also manipulates a prejudice against non-humans - a charge that is made against the Rebellion in some of the back stories (see for instance this article on Prune Face from Wookieepedia: Species Prejudice in Star Wars).

This scene becomes all the more remarkable when we listen out for Han's very next derogatory statement after jumping to hyperspace and escaping from the Imperial Star Destroyer: He says to Luke and Obi-Wan 'Well you can forget about your problems with those Imperial slugs, I told you I'd outrun them'.

Han is calling the slug-like Jabba a human being and then minutes later he's calling the human Imperials slugs. He's using species inversion in both directions as a source of insult, and since the Imperials don't care for non-humans the designation of slug is all the more cutting. Han is probably not species prejudice but he's certainly capable of manipulating species prejudices for comic effect.

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