One thing I hate more than jokes in code, is people trying to remove "problematic" jokes/terminology from a project they have never contributed to.

But since the people contributing to the project are presumably the people adding the "problematic" jokes/terminology to the project, who then do you propose should try to remove them if you bar people who haven't contributed?

Realistically what would be the percentage of total potential contributors that you are barring from contributing? Nobody can't say for sure, but my guess it is probably a single digit number. Even if you fix that someone else will be offended from another thing. When you try to enforce cleansing the community it is more likely to lose existing contributors that put that jokes in. People should be told if their behaviour is not optional in order to improve, but don't go stir up pointless drama in which you have no personal involvement with.

The main joke is the people complaining.