Old Facebook posts by Ward 6 candidate Scott Seguin have come to light, prompting concern from local citizens regarding his character, though Seguin said they are reflective of a negative blip in his life and not the person he has been, on the balance
A racial slur and jokes, ableist language, body-shaming and dismissing the death of people who use substances have been unearthed in past online posts by Ward 6 candidate Scott Seguin.
“I thought my kids and grandkids would not be hearing this, and it looks like they will be,” she told Sudbury.com. “I thought we’d come a long way, but it looks like we’ve got a long way to go.” The woman, whom Sudbury.com spoke with on the grounds she would remain anonymous, responded to Seguin’s post by arguing “p*ki is a racial slur.” Seguin countered that it’s simply “short form for Pakistanian .”
As for people who use substances, he wrote, “There’s a choice in putting drugs in your body that you know are killing people. So it sounds like the problem is fixing itself.” Screenshots of past correspondence have been selectively chosen, Seguin said, and took place during a difficult time in his life when he was not in a good emotional state.
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