Christopher Hill Contributor Gold

This is a great article! So many brilliant artists buried beneath both the prejudices of their time and our own.
Chevalier de Saint-Georges especially is one of the most remarkable people of his time; not many can claim to be a virtuoso, composer, and military hero in a single lifetime. By all accounts, Mozart didn’t really like him that much either so dubbing him “Black Mozart” because journalists can’t seem to trust the general public to appreciate a composer unless they mention some really famous (and white) person to compare them to is frustrating and rather an insult to the man’s impressive legacy…

An inspired article! I've been hoping to demonstrate games-as-art for a while now and whilst there are a number of small voices in the academic field trying to promote this idea, ludomusicology is often more interested in the psychology, philosophy, or sociology of games than attempting to cement them as an art form in their own right. Maybe they think the idea of games being an art form is self-evident.
I think the biggest issue is the popular conception of gaming. It still holds a stigma in mainstream culture; the moral panics you outline here are part of it, but there's also the more subtle and insidious idea where gamers are profiled as the oft-caricatured Mountain Dew-swilling, Dorito-munching, usually male (although the "gamer girl" has its own harmful stereotypes) basement-dweller. I think the erosion of these stereotypes of gaming is going to be paramount if videogames are to be taken seriously enough in the popular conscience to be considered art by most.

An enlightening read on the nature of objectivity and journalism and a bleak indictment of our relationship with it. A really good read and I kinda want to see how these principles might apply elsewhere...