I couldn’t be more ambivalent about this story.
If true, it merely shows that Jefferson was human. But I already knew that. If untrue, it shows that the haters are themselves all too human. And I already knew that.
Truth - and knowing what is historically true - matter.
We’ve had postmodern philosophers who have suggested that truth can be sacrificed to a political agenda, if the latter serves what THEY subjectively believe is the ‘greater good’.
But some of us believe that there is no greater good than Truth.