Please ignore the spin and read the Code of Conduct.
It’s one example of positive behavior. Nowhere else does the word ‘empathy’ appear.
Furthermore, the word ‘empathy’ is frequently used casually to mean a variety of different things, ranging from the actual feeling of other people’s emotions (something that people may not be able to do) to merely taking into account whether doing something would constitute ‘being a jerk’ from someone else’s perspective (something that some people have more innate talent for than others, but that almost anyone can learn if they try). Let’s not get too twisted around assuming that everyone is working from the literal dictionary definition of the word, and let’s ask clarifying questions of the mods if we think they’re expecting something unreasonable.