They are just playing his own playbook and using whatever means necessary to push their agenda. These people trying to make him seem like he was some sort of Aristotle the moment he is dead know what they are doing.
Pure hyperbole, you have to construct a pretty elaborate web of half-truths to try to make him out to have zero empathy
Reality is often a parody of itself. Did you know he famously quoted that empathy "Does a lot of damage"?