let's say the council comes to your house and ask you to hang a sock of different color everyday at your front door, and say "good morning" to the light pole, you know, random shit that means nothing to no one. Would you comply because there is no harm?

Now imagine it's not some random shit, maybe they ask you to go to the front door every morning and shout "Black lives matter", you know, something that sounds good but actually is still meaningless, for show only. In enforcing this they allocate the time of social workers who would otherwise do real work, into corresponding emails, knocking doors, doing inspecting work. I mean what's the harm? to you personally?

Let's go further, what if the council and their workers realize they can get good publicity and funding by keep adding for more slogans, for-show kind of "initiatives", and do no real work. Why not then just stop real work and bank on this pretend work stream?

But ultimately, what is the harm to YOU, personally?