Liberals might look less like ethnicity-obsessed fools if they took a few minutes to breathe deeply, check two or three relevant Google links, and think before yapping. On the explosive issue of Ebola, unfortunately, left-wing loudmouths have confirmed their status as racial arsonists.

MSNBC host Alex Wagner recently slammed Republican legislators and conservative commentators for wanting to curtail incoming travel from nations ravaged by Ebola. “I mean, it’s not even thinly veiled racism at this point,” Wagner claimed.

Joy Reid, Wagner’s co-host, chimed in: “I’m glad you called it a racial stew because it is kind of like the perfect storm. You have an African, God forbid, [who] flies into the United States and you have all of these sorts of issues of immigration sort of thrown into it.”

“I am starting to think that this is all some kind of mix-and-match game of fear,” Julio Varela, founder of Latino Rebels, told CNN. “You take the most extreme examples of xenophobic hysteria — Mexicans, terrorists, ISIS, the border crisis, and Ebola — and mash them all together to create a new narrative of craziness.”

Ian Haney Lopez of Raw Story sees the Right’s concerns on Ebola as a cynical campaign tactic on the road to November 4.

“In the immediate run-up to the midterm elections, we’re witnessing fear mongering about Ebola on the southern border from across the conservative spectrum,” Lopez wrote on Saturday. “We are confronting an election conducted largely in dog whistle terms, with pundits and candidates hoping to use racially coded appeals to drive anxious white voters to the polls . . . Conservatives are whipping up their base with racially-charged narratives.”

While these and other liberals may find this impossible to believe, Republicans and conservatives really do want to protect Americans across the board from a contagious, aggressive, brutal, and potentially 70 percent fatal disease. Some 42 million black citizens call this country home. The Ebola-related travel restrictions that many on the right advocate would shield these Americans, too. Such limits would keep Ebola beyond U.S. borders, not just outside the frontiers of states that supported Mitt Romney in 2012 or only white neighborhoods.

If these leftists really consider the Right racist for wanting temporary travel curbs on those from the Ebola Zone, then they also should denounce as equally racist the African nations that have launched such clampdowns.

If they are at all consistent, American leftists should decry the following 13 African countries for black-on-black bigotry. To varying degrees, these states have sealed their border crossings, ports, and/or airports to residents of and travelers from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone — the three nations hit hardest by today’s Ebola outbreak. Where available, the dates this year when they adopted these restrictions also are listed. This information was reported last night by International SOS:

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Several African states block travelers from one or two — but not all three — of the stricken states. Some African countries also exclude people from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda.

The black leaders of these black nations surely are motivated by something other than anti-black bias, namely a solemn commitment to defend their own people from all enemies, foreign and domestic. In this case, their foes are microscopic — but lethal. This same protective impulse propels common-sense conservative calls for a temporary travel ban from the Ebola zone.

As for Obama, he should understand that if these rules are good enough for Kenya, they are good enough for America.