Edit Sheeran has historically chosen not to take sides on political issues. Recently he dropped Macklemore from some tour dates under pressure from billionaire Robert Kraft, who owns an arena he's booked at due to Macklemore's vocal opposition to Israel's genocidal actions in Palestine.

Ed Sheeran is influential enough that choosing to speak out would be beneficial towards raising awareness about the issue. Even though he has the platform to help people by speaking up about important issues, he chooses not to. Even though he has hundreds of millions of dollars and could easily afford get a few dates cancelled just to make a statement he chooses not to. Most likely because he is a straight, white, wealthy, well-connected man who doesn't have to worry about the threat of oppression and would rather stay silent than risk his ability to make even more millions of dollars.

for the original clip that the images come from, you don't really need any context other than what's shown here in order to get the point of this particular meme: an explicit statement that you are not taking a stance on a particular issue is itself an explicit stance on that issue

but to give the context that's not really needed, it's a game show, and the objective of this particular part of the episode is "don't acknowledge Ron Perlman," but the twist is some players don't know the objectives, and just walk into the room and see Ron Perlman with no instruction given

Ed lost his spine somewhere and he's having a lot of trouble finding it, please check under your couch cushions!