Answer: The sub made racist jokes purely in an ironic sense, they weren't actually racist, just trying to have fun. However, these kinds of jokes can have unforeseen consequences for everyone involved.

Otherwise cool and chill people will start to show their true colors and reveal that they're genuinely hateful, or genuine racists will hear the conversation and make the entire group look bad with their beliefs the second they try to join in.

The sub is currently going down the same route as r/legoyoda. The ironic humor started to not sound as ironic as it once did, and people are trying their damndest to stop these unironic-sounding jokes from getting out of hand before it inevitably gets them banned.