Mark Latham has allegedly taken to social media to unleash a bitter and racist tirade against his political peers by claiming "white people" and "straight people" must stand up and reclaim their country.

The controversial former Labor leader posted the string of bizarre comments to his Twitter account today, just hours after boasting about streaming his first 'Outsiders' show on Facebook Live.

"Facebook an amazing technology: can create free TV shows, no ads, lots of free speech. By-pass the elites and confected outrage industry," he wrote to his @RealMarkLatham profile.

Mr Latham turned to the social media platform to resurrect his 'Outsiders' program after he was dumped by Sky News last month for commenting on the sexual orientation of a Sydney schoolboy.





He called on his 5480 followers to "fight for the people" so they can take back "our country. He then went on to say that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is a "waste of space".



"White people must fight against the Left's new anti-white racism," he added, naming Senator Sam Dastyari and his "grubby mates".

In a tongue-in-cheek response, TV personality James Mathison agreed.

"Yes! White people unite! It is time for us White people to finally stand up and be counted. History has ignored us for too long," he tweeted.





While another Twitter user offered this observation: "This public meltdown is going from strength to strength."

Not to outdo himself, Mr Latham then wrote: "Straight people must fight the new militant gay-left, seeking to sack those who believe in God and man-woman marriage. No persecution."

It was at this point when social media users began questioning whether the posts were part of an elaborate hoax.

"You say you're Real Mark Latham but I'm not seeing a verified tick… you could just be another angry, arrogant, white man with a loud voice," one Twitter user wrote.





Mr Latham was first linked to the Twitter account in 2015. The account has laid dormant since August 2015 until late last month.

During his Sky News show late last month, Mr Latham said he thought a student at Sydney Boys High School was gay after he fronted a social media video involving the school.

"I thought he was gay. Well, yes, who wouldn't think that? Only later in the video did it become clear the students were reciting the words of women as part of some strange social media presentation," he said.

The video, which the school posted to Facebook, featured a number of students putting a male voice to the answers to why feminism is important to the women in their lives.

"Feminism is important to me because a few months ago a guy decided for me that I wanted to have sex with him. I didn't want to," one student says in the video.

Mr Latham was savaged by members of his party-faithful, namely Labor leader Bill Shorten and deputy Tania Plibersek over the remarks.



Education Minister Simon Birmingham and NSW state minister Rob Stokes also took issue with his comments.