If you’ve ever read any of Theodore Dalrymple’s columns you wouldn’t be surprised. It’s the inevitable combination of three decades of welfare culture, out-of-control political correctness and the Labor Party’s control of public education.
I’m sure there is a “War Against Boys” angle there too. But liberalism in Britain has created a huge, dysfunctional, violent, drunken, unemployable “Oi!” culture in what used to be called “working-class” whites.
From the UK - what you say is pretty well correct.